Six security personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been arrested and detained for allowing the co-accused of former senator Leila M. de Lima in the drugs case to leave detention without authority. Department of Justice (DO) Assistant Secretary and Spokesperson Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV identified the detainee and De Lima’s co-accused as Jad Dera. “He (Dera) has several cases related to drugs. One of which he is a co-accused in the case of former Senator De Lima. There are also certain cases where he alone is charged,” Clavano said. “They are there now under custody of the NBI agents and they would be brought for inquest at any time within today or tomorrow (June 22),” he said. “We are looking at all the possible cases to be filed,” he said as he cited possible violations of the Revised Penal Code, bribery and corruption. Clavano said the six security personnel were arrested about midnight on Wednesday, June 21, as they returned to the NBI detention facility in Manila with detainee Dera. He said that Dera has become a “mayores” of the NBI detention “so that, in itself, will already show na meron siyang kapangyarihan (he has power) or influence in and around the detention center.” He refused to give the names of the six NBI security personnel whom he said “are not agents.” In a statement, the NBI said: “The NBI assures the public that our organization will not condone acts of betrayal of public trust. The Chief of Security Management Section was already relieved from his post pending investigation of the case.” “Rest assured that the tasked investigators will thoroughly look into the bottom of the incident, including the possible involvement of other personalities, and will immediately file the appropriate criminal and administrative cases,” it said. Prior the arrest of the security personnel, Clavano said the DOJ received confidential information that Dera was not in the NBI detention facility. “This prompted us to inform the NBI that he was not in his detention center and that prompted the NBI to create a task force at inabangan doon sa mismong gate ng NBI (and they waited for their return at the gate),” Clavano said. He said confiscated from them were some firearms, cash and other contrabands. ‘It is an absolute rule that detainees cannot get out of the detention center,” he said. If the detainees are undergoing preliminary investigation, Clavano said  “the authority to allow them to leave for very limited number of reasons would come from the panel of prosecutors.” “If their case is already in court then they would have to obtain an order from the court,” he added. Asked if Dera has links with Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” A. Teves Jr. in the reported attempt to bribe detained suspects in the killings of Gov. Roel R. Degamo and nine other persons, Clavano said: “Nothing is established yet on that angle.” He also said the money confiscated from those arrested did not amount to P10 million as claimed by some reports which also alleged that the money would be paid to detained suspects in the Degamo slaying.