FORMER Senior Supt. Glenn Dumlao will be arrested and taken in custody by the NBI when he arrives from extradition from the United States on Thursday, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said yesterday.

Dumlao, a suspect in the killing of publicist Salvador Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in 2000, will be secured by NBI agents and airport officials when he arrives in an undisclosed flight from New York, where he has been detained, Gonzalez said.

He will not be allowed to talk to reporters, he said.

Dumlao is expected to testify in the murder case in which two other former police officials?Senior Supts. Cesar Mancao and Michael Ray Aquino?have also been tagged as suspects. Both are in the United States and also facing extradition.

?Dumlao will be placed under arrest,? Gonzalez said.

?I already made arrangements with the general manager of [the airport]. He will be detained at the NBI.?

Dumlao, Mancao and Aquino were serving under Panfilo Lacson, who was head of a task force against organized crime when Dacer and his driver were killed.

The two were kidnapped in broad daylight on the South Superhighway on Nov. 24, 2000, and by people believed to be members of the police force.

Their charred bodies were found four days later in a creek in Indang, Cavite.

Mancao has executed an affidavit saying Lacson, now a senator, had ordered the killings. Lacson has repeatedly denied the charge.

Gonzalez said Dumlao had executed three affidavits. In the first one he implicated high-ranking government officials in the killings, and in the second one he claimed he had been pressured to implicate them. In the third one he claimed his first affidavit was the correct one.

Dumlao was arrested by FBI agents and US marshals after the Philippine government requested his extradition along Mancao.

Dumlao was supposed to be one of the government?s key witnesses in the case, but he went into hiding in 2003, forcing a Philippine court to issue an arrest warrant against him. Rey E. Requejo