Palparan files motion to stay under NBI custody

Retired General Jovito Palparan faced the media earlier today, says he is expecting arrest. Photo: Carlo Mateo / DZBB via Twitter

MANILA – Citing security issues, retired Army general Jovito Palparan is asking the court to have the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) keep his custody.

The motion was filed asking the court to reconsider its order to have him detained at the Bulacan Provincial Jail.

Palparan said he has already been receiving death threats including one from the communist New People’s Army (NPA), which forced him to go hiding.

Palparan, who was recently arrested after hiding for over two years, is now being charged with two counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention for the alleged abduction of UP students Karen Empeño and Sherilyn Cadapan in Hagonoy, Bulacan on June 26, 2006.

Palparan was caught by the NBI and military intelligence operatives, early Tuesday, in a dilapidated house in Manila.