The Department of Justice (DOJ) will arrange the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to examine the sudden passing of high-profile prisoners at the national prison due evidently to the coronavirus malady (COVID-19).

The DOJ, in a explanation Monday, said Sec. Menardo Guevarra met with Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag to examine the COVID-19 circumstance within the country’s jails, and the detailed passings of 9 prisoners, counting medicate bigwig Jaybee Sebastian.

“Secretary Guevarra is set to issue a Department Order coordinating the National Bureau of Examination to conduct such examination,” the DOJ said in a explanation.

In the duplicate of the order gotten by ABS-CBN News, Guevarra requested NBI officer-in-charge Eric Distor to examine the passings of the 9 detainees supposedly due to COVID-19.Distor is also directed to submit his report on the progress of the investigation directly to Guevarra within 10 days.

The justice department, through representative Usec. Markk Perete also claimed Sebastian was as of now cremated, based on Bantag’s confirmation.

Bantag prior said, that 21 prisoners contracted COVID-19 and a few have passed on since March.

 He too said Sebastian’s remains were incinerated inside 12 hours since his passing, taking after the convention on passings due to COVID-19.

To disperse any question on the passing of Sebastian and the 8 other prisoners, Bantag said he was open to an free examination on the matter.

 Before his affirmation, Bantag denied to uncover any points of interest concerning Sebastian’s passing, citing the Information Protection Act.

 National Privacy Commission commissioner Mon Liboro, in any case, said the Information Security Act cannot be conjured within the said circumstance, since Sebastian had gotten to be a open figure.

 “The Data Privacy Act isn’t a cloak for denying the public’s right to know. High-profile detainees like JB (sic) Sebastian had gotten to be open figures on account of their previous affiliation with specific national issues within the past,” Liboro said in a content message to ABS-CBN News.