The sister of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chief Prospero De Vera III has been arrested in Quezon City on Thursday for alleged murder charges.
Adora Faye De Vera, 67, was arrested in Teacher’s Village, Quezon City, on Wednesday afternoon by virtue of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued against her by Judge Guilljie Delfin Lim of Iloilo City’s Regional Trial Court Branch 22,.
This was confirmed by Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. in a press briefing in Pampanga on Thursday.
“[Adora Faye] De Vera is the subject of a Warrant of Arrest without bail, issued by the Court for the crime of Multiple Murder and Multiple Frustrated Murder with the Use of Explosives, particularly anti-personnel landmines that are outlawed by international conventions on warfare,” the PNP chief said in a press briefing in Pampanga.
“She is also accused in a separate criminal case for the crime of rebellion,” he added.
According to Azurin, Adora is a staff officer of the General Command of the CPP, New People’s Army (NPA), and National Democratic Front, as well as the secretary of the Central Front of CPP-NPA Regional Committee-Panay.
She is now under the custody of Calinog municipal police in Iloilo.
Adora was a torture victim during the Martial Law era in the Philippines under the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
She was among Martial Law survivors who filed a historic case against the late dictator in the Federal District Court of Pennsylvania, with US-based legal counsels representing the Filipino plaintiffs.
