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THE National Bureau of Investigation on Friday raided the suspected safehouses of former Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag but failed to find the embattled ex-BuCor official.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Armed with arrest warrants, NBI agents swooped down into two houses in Sta. Rosa, Laguna and Caloocan City but did not find Bantag.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 and Las Pi\u00f1as RTC Branch 254 issued warrants of arrest for Bantag and former BuCor officer Ricardo Zulueta for two counts of murder.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zulueta, however, died on March 15 due to cerebrovascular disease intracranial hemorrhage.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bantag had been tagged as the mastermind in the killing of broadcaster Percival Mabasa or Percy Lapid and prisoner Cristito Villamor Palana.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 2022, the broadcaster was shot dead near his home after making comments online that appeared to link Bantag to corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bantag was also accused of ordering the killing of Palana, the alleged middleman, who allegedly passed the kill order to the gunman to kill Mabasa.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The former BuCor official denied any connection or role in the killings.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A P2 million reward was announced by the Department of Justice for any information on Bantag\u2019s whereabouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE National Bureau of Investigation on Friday raided the suspected safehouses of former Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag but failed to find the embattled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}