A former Department of Justice (DOJ) official has purportedly tried to bribe detained witnesses to stop cooperating with authorities investigating the killings of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and nine others in March. Lawyer Levito Baligod, counsel for the Degamo family, did not identify the former official but claimed that the official did so through guards at the detention center of the National Bureau of Investigation. 'A certain high-ranking official of the DOJ before, with the rank of [undersecretary], is working with some jail guards at the NBI detention facility to offer money to the detainees so that they won't cooperate,' he said in a television interview.

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