IT’S just a diversionary tactic.
This was what Chief Insp. Hector Amancia, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group 7, said on the defense of Chinese-Filipino businessman Peter Lim’s legal team on the latter’s case in the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Manila.
“They are just diverting the issue so that the investigation will not be focused on them. Anyway, they have all the right to say that it was not their client who was placed under investigation,” he said.
DOJ ordered Lim to answer the complaints against him for violation of Republic Act (RA) 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 in a preliminary investigation last Aug. 14.
Magilyn Loja, one of Lim’s lawyers, said that their client is not the person referred to as Peter Go Lim alias Jaguar, who is involved in the illegal drug trade.
“He’s not that person. He has always denied it. In fact, he has presented himself saying that he’s not that Jaguar,” Loja said.
Amancia said they already forwarded the result of their investigation to their head office.
“In our level, our evidence is already sufficient. He was the subject of our investigation,” Amancia said.
“We cannot say that the Peter Lim we are investigating is not the real Peter Lim. In fact, former congresman Antonio Cuenco did a previous investigation against him in 2001,” he said.
Lim did not show up during the first preliminary investigation in DOJ last Monday.
DOJ has scheduled the next preliminary investigation on Aug. 17. (JOB)