Prosecutors also found enough basis to charge Bantag and Chaclag for unlawfully forcing the officers to withdraw their criminal complaint against the prisons chief s men over the incident at Ihawig.
Meanwhile, the DOJ says the other complaints, which include grave threats, physical injuries, slander, obstruction of justice, and alleged violation of the Anti-Torture Act, will not push through due to insufficiency of evidence
The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag and ex-BuCor Spokesperson Gabriel Chaclag for allegedly forcing a correction officer of the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm (IPPF) in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan to sign a document denying a shooting incident between BuCor personnel occurred in the facility in March 2020.