• NOVEMBER 24, 2000 – Publicist Salvador “Bubby’’ Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were abducted near the intersection of Zobel Roxas Street and President Osmeña Highway in Metro Manila.

• APRIL 2001 – Dacer’s and Corbito’s charred remains were found in a creek in Cavite.

• MAY 2001 – The Department of Justice charged 22 men, including 11 policemen, with double murder.

Witnesses tagged the head of Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) – Visayas, Senior Supt. Teofilo Viña, as the alleged leader of the group that seized and killed Dacer and Corbito and burned their remains.

• JUNE 4, 2001 – Deputy chief for operations of PAOCTF-Luzon, Senior Supt. Glenn Dumlao, was arrested. In his affidavit, he said former President Joseph Estrada and former Philippine National Police chief Panfilo Lacson might have knowledge of the murders. Estrada and Lacson denied the allegations.

• JUNE 25, 2001 – Justice Secretary Hernando Perez cleared Estrada of involvement for lack of evidence.

Dumlao tagged Senior Superintendents Michael Ray Aquino and Mancao as among those who planned the double murder.

• JULY 2001 – Aquino and Mancao left the country.

• SEPTEMBER 2001 – The DoJ filed double murder charges against Aquino and Mancao.

• JANUARY 2003 – Viña denied the accusation. He was shot dead in Tanza, Cavite.

• MAY 2003 – Dumlao also left the country.

• SEPTEMBER 2005 – Aquino was arrested in the US for unauthorized possession of US defense documents.He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years and four months imprisonment in July 2007. His term was later cut to three years.

• APRIL 2006 – Mancao was arrested in the US as material witness against Aquino.

• MAY 2006 – The Manila RTC ordered the arrest of Aquino and Mancao after Dacer-Corbito double murder case finding probable cause against them and 18 others.

• NOVEMBER 2008 – Mancao and Dumlao were arrested in the US upon extradition requests from the Philippines.

• June 4, 2009 – Mancao returned to the country. He became a state witness in the double murder case. He named Lacson as the mastermind.

•January 5, 2010 – Lacson left for Hong Kong.

• January 7, 2010 – Lacson was charged in court with two counts of murder. No bail was recommended.

• February 2, 2010 – Lacson confirmed that he left the country for fear of his “own personal safety and security.” Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Lacson was on the watch list.

• February 4, 2010 –The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) belied reports that Lacson is in Australia. The NBI said this is based on information from the Australian Federal Police and the Australian embassy.

Avisado said Lacson can’t be considered a fugitive since he left the country before charges were filed against him in court and that no warrant of arrest has been issued.