The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to file criminal charges in court against six security personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for allowing a detainee to leave his cell without a court order or urgent medical need. Also to be charged is detainee Jose Adrian “Jad” Dera, a co-accused of former senator Leila M. de Lima in her illegal drugs case, who was arrested together with his six NBI escorts when they returned to the NBI detention facility in Manila on June 21, 2023. Aside from Dera, to be charged are NBI Security Officer II Randy Godoy, and NBI job order personnel Arnel Ganzon, Diana Rose Novelozo, Lee Eric Loreto, King Jeroh Martin, and Pepe Piedad Jr. In a statement, the DOJ said “the criminal information against the respondents will be filed before the Metropolitan Trial Court of Manila City.” “After evaluation of the evidence, the assigned prosecutor found sufficient evidence to hold the respondents for trial,” it said. It said that Godoy will be charged with infidelity in the custody of prisoners under Article 223 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC). Dera and the five job order personnel of NBI will be charged with violation of Article 156 of RPC on removal from any jail or penal establishment any person confined. “There is probable cause in finding that Dera induced Godoy, Ganzon, Novelozo, Loreto, Martin, and Piedad to assist him escape from prison and that Godoy, Ganzon, Novelozo, Loreto, Martin, and Piedad facilitated the escape of Dera from his detention facility,” the DOJ said. It said that from June 20 to 21, the six NBI security personnel escorted Dera out of the detention facility using an NBI marked vehicle “under the pretense of a medical check-up outside said premises and without any court order or authorization.” “Thereafter, it was discovered that they met with Dera's female friend and went to share a meal in a restaurant in Makati City,” it said. On their arrest on June 21, the DOJ said “authorities seized P101,000 in cash from Dera, and P10,000 from Godoy and P11,000 from Veloso, which appeared to be the Respondents’ payment for escorting out Dera from the detention facility.”