00:00Tips on the missing cockfighting gamers case received by the NBI, the police and the DOJ deemed credible are being acted upon.
00:08Case in point, the latter's action in digging up a reported burial site in Batangas of three missing individuals
00:14whose deaths or disappearance could well be linked to the main case as our Luisa Erispe dwells on in this report.
00:21Aside from the search dive in Taal Lake, the Department of Justice or DOJ confirmed it will also conduct ex-zooming in an area in Batangas
00:32for a possible lead on the whereabouts of the missing cockfighting enthusiasts.
00:36According to Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulia, these are three unclaimed bodies which were buried by the police.
00:43Once the bodies are exhumed, the DOJ will conduct DNA examination to see if these are related to the case of the missing Sabongeros.
01:08The DOJ is currently setting up a DNA bank for the samples of the missing Sabongeros families.
01:38Meanwhile, the DOJ reiterated the possible link between the missing Sabongero case and the drug war case of the Duterte administration.
01:52Remulia insisted there is a link between the suspects of both cases.
01:56When asked if they are now investigating the drug war and not the missing Sabongero case, Remulia only said,
02:23We're more on the missing Sabongero, but because there's an intersection, we have no choice but to include everything to make a clean breast outfit of it.
