Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed hitman who blew the whistle on former president Rodrigo Duterte’s death squad in Davao City, is “currently safe” in an undisclosed location.
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00:00Edgar Matubato, a self-confessed hitman who blew the whistle on former President Rodrigo
00:05Duterte's death squad in Davao City, is currently safe in an undisclosed location.
00:11Matubato fled the Philippines after persistent death threats.
00:14A trusted source knowledgeable about the arrangements told Rappler, Matubato is fit and well and
00:19considers a foreign country most safe, where Duterte is not influential.
00:24Matubato's affidavit was among the first communications filed with the ICC that resulted in a now
00:29seven-year-long investigation.
00:32Matubato's fellow self-confessed hitman, Arturo Lascañas, has been offered limited immunity
00:37by the ICC.
00:38Former Senator Antonio Trillanes, in a post on social media, says one of the last acts
00:43of former President Noyne Aquino as president was to ensure the safety of Edgar Matubato,
00:47who was under the NBI Witness Protection Program at the time, before the assumption of Duterte
00:52as president in 2016.
00:54He directed a trusted senior government official to facilitate Matubato's transfer of custody
00:59to a senior member of the Catholic Church.
01:01This act of Pinoy saved Matubato's life.