DOJ to work with int'l counterparts for extradition of Enzo Pastor's wife

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will work with local and international agencies to track and extradite Dalia Pastor, wife of international racing champion Enzo Pastor, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said Monday.

Dalia is accused of parricide.

This came after Pastor’s family appealed to the DOJ and the Department of the Interior and Local Government for help in locating her.

Tomas and Remedios Pastor said they received credible reports that Dalia fled the Philippines in 2015 and assumed a new identity.

“[T]he DOJ will join our partner agencies in hunting down the mastermind of Enzo Pastor's murder," Remulla said in a statement.

"We will also be working with our international counterparts to track down and extradite Dalia as soon as possible, ten years have passed and this is the time to prove that the present administration will do whatever it takes to get the job done at all costs," he added.

Remulla said he met with Pastor’s parents on Sunday morning.

“We’re sympathetic to parents who lose their children, diba, among all else,” the Justice Secretary said in an ambush interview. 

He said that it is confirmed that Dalia is in Indonesia, but that authorities have to validate details such as the names she could be using. 

“So that when we do the request it is going to fully sync with all the allegations that we may have on the case. Because an extradition request should contain sufficient facts for them to act on the request,” he said.

Last week, the Supreme Court reinstated the arrest warrant and hold departure order against Dalia. For the SC, there was sufficient evidence that identified Pastor as a co-conspirator in the killing.

Enzo was shot dead at the intersection of Visayas Avenue and Congressional Avenue in June 2014.

Prosecutors charged Dalia, self-confessed gunman and Police Officer II Edgar Angel, and Domingo de Guzman III as the masterminds in the killing. The SC said Angel and De Guzman were arrested, while Dalia remains at large. — RSJ/BM, GMA Integrated News