The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee will recommend to the Senate leadership that retired police general Wenceslao “Wally” Sombero be cited for contempt for his repeated failure to appear at the panel’s investigation into the P50-million bribery scandal involving Chinese gambling tycoon Jack Lam.
Panel chairperson Sen. Richard J. Gordon has also asked the Department of Justice to cancel Sombero’s passport to compel him to return to the country immediately and face the Senate’s probe. Sombero was absent at the Senate hearing for the third time despite being summoned by the panel.
“I’ll have him arrested, he’s now (going to be) cited for contempt. And I’m asking that his passport be cancelled.
He’s trying to fool us,” said Gordon.
Gordon was able to get the concurrence of Justice Secretary Vitaliano N. Aguirre that Sombero’s passport be cancelled. (Hannah L. Torregoza)