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Reelectionist Senator Leila de Lima maintains that there is nothing questionable about witnesses finally speaking the truth and finding it in their conscience to retract their lies against her in relation to her illegal drugs charge. De Lima, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) secretary, said the
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“Anyone can see how I am in no position to force anything from the witnesses against me,” De Lima said. “There are many things questionable about the cases against me. The recantation of witnesses is not one of them. If anything, this is the only thing that makes sense: it's proof that the truth will always come out,” she added.
FORMER officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Rafael Ragos, another witness in the drug cases filed against Senator Leila de Lima, has executed an affidavit recanting his statements implicating the latter in the illegal-drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa when she was justice secretary. Ragos’s…