LEILA de Lima was a senator of the Republic who served most of her elective term from 2016 to 2022 at the Camp Came police headquarters detention center in Quezon City for an alleged crime that was never proved.
The witnesses have recanted, but she is still there.In February 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte had her charged and arrested for having allegedly received money from drug lords while she was secretary of justice and in charge of the Bureau of Corrections. She was never tried or convicted of this charge, but obviously because of some extra-legal reasons, she was not allowed to post bail.
But prior to that, on April 30, 2022, witness Rafael Ragos recanted his previous testimony about delivering drug lords' money to de Lima. He said his testimony was false and coerced, given upon instruction of his immediate superior at the time, Duterte's secretary of justice Vitaliano Aguirre. Similarly, Kerwin Espinosa said he had given false testimony against de Lima after the police threatened the lives of members of his family.
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