THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is seeking to place retired policeman Arturo Lascañas under the Red Notice of the International Police Organization (Interpol).
According to Interpol, a Red Notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest individual pending extradition; the transfer of an accused from one state or country to another state or country that seeks to place the accused on trial.
The Red Notice is issued by the Interpol General Secretariat at the request of a member country or an international tribunal based on a valid national arrest warrant.
NBI Southeastern Mindanao Region Arnold Rosales said they have submitted the requirements.
"Nakipag coordinate na kami sa Interpol para ma-Red Notice si Lascañas, we have already submitted the required documents," he said in a message to SunStar Davao on Wednesday, June 21.
It has been reported that Lascañas left the country last April 8, following the threats that a complaint will be filed against him.
Lascañas was charged with murder and two counts of frustrated murder, following the death of radio announcer Juan Pajadora Pala Jr., alias Jun Pala, who was gunned down last September 6, 2003, while he was on his way home to a village in Davao City.
The three separate cases filed against him raffled off to Regional Trial Court Branch 10 dated on May 29. The three separate cases were filed on the same date and were received by the court on June 1, Thursday afternoon.
In a five-page resolution that was approved May 25, the Davao City Prosecutor's Office found probable cause to charge Lascañas, former DCPO member, following the complaint filed by the wife of the victim, Louise Aguirre Pala.
A subpoena was issued by the prosecutor's office on March 29 for the accused to submit his counter-affidavit and countervailing evidence but the return of the subpoena showed Lascañas is no longer residing at the same address.