Department of Justice (DoJ) Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II confirmed yesterday that the wife of a high-profile New Bilibid Prison (NBP) inmate was hurt in an ambush in Makati City last Friday.
“The ambush is real, I am no liar!” said Aguirre in a statement about the shooting that took place last Friday in Makati City that targeted Lalaine Madrigal-Martinez. She is one of the persons who claimed that high-profile inmates were offered P100 million to retract their testimonies against Senator Leila de Lima.
The secretary also sent to the media several photos from Martinez as proof that she did get ambushed.
The photographs include Martinez getting out of her Honda CRV with a bloody right shoulder as well as the cracked windshield of her vehicle with one bullet hole.
Aguirre explained to reporters yesterday that there was no police report about the incident because she decided not to report it.
“Nagself-medication na lang siya doon sa kapatid niya, said the DoJ chief. (Jeffrey Damicog)