Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo has cast doubts on claims of self-confessed killer Edgar Matobato that he was a former member of the ”Davao Death Squad” and was involved in at least a thousand killings of suspected drug pushers, rapists, snatchers and Muslims on orders of then-Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.

Matobato, who was produced by Sen. Leila de Lima, a former chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, made the confession on Thursday before the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

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