24 Oras: (Part 1) Pag-acquit ng Sandiganbayan kina Enrile, Napoles, at Reyes sa kasong Plunder; Kanseladong PHL Passport ni Alice Guo; Inspeksyon ni PBBM sa Batanes, atbp.

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00:00Live from the GMA Network Center, 20 years of learning, 24 Hours.

00:12Good evening, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

00:16The most innocent in the plunder of Sandigan Bayan,

00:20former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile,

00:22and his former Chief of Staff, Gigi Reyes,

00:26and Janet Napoles.

00:28It's time for the Pork Barrel Scam,

00:30or the child abuse of funds by Peking NGOs

00:33to get a kickback.

00:35Even though the plunder was successful,

00:37there are still three cases to be solved.

00:40And Maki Pulido is on the scene.

00:4510 years since the Pork Barrel Scam,

00:48the child abuse of funds of PEDAF,

00:51or Priority Development Assistance Fund,

00:54by Janet Napoles' Peking NGOs

00:56to get a kickback.

00:57The former Senator,

00:59and now Presidential Legal Counsel,

01:01Juan Ponce Enrile,

01:02was acquitted in the case of plunder.

01:04This is just one of the numerous cases of the scam.

01:06His former Chief of Staff,

01:09Gigi Reyes,

01:10and Janet Napoles were also acquitted in the case of plunder.

01:12According to Sandigan Bayan,

01:13it was not proven beyond reasonable doubt

01:16that Enrile and Reyes received a kickback

01:18and commission for the scam.

01:20According to the allegation,

01:21it amounted to P172 million pesos.

01:24There were no witnesses who said

01:26they received or transferred money to Enrile.

01:29There was also no sufficient evidence

01:31in the required criminal cases

01:33to say that there was no doubt that Reyes received,

01:36in a split second,

01:38more than P46 million pesos as a kickback.

01:42According to the court,

01:43even though Napoles' Peking NGOs

01:45have formed a firm group,

01:47the evidence of the prosecution is not enough

01:49to prove that Napoles gave a kickback

01:52or commission to Enrile or Reyes.

01:55According to the court,

01:56the documents showed that

01:58the beneficiaries received the funds from PDAF.

02:02Based on the evidence,

02:04the prosecution did not prove the case of plunder.

02:06According to the law,

02:08it should amount to P50 million pesos

02:10of ill-gotten wealth

02:11to say that it was a plunder.

02:13Even though,

02:14according to the lack of evidence in the case of plunder,

02:16Sandigan Bayan presiding justice,

02:18Amparo Cabotaje Tang,

02:19said in his dissenting opinion,

02:21that Reyes should be charged with five counts of bribery

02:24and Napoles with five counts of corruption

02:27of public officials.

02:29After the special court dismissed the ruling,

02:31Napoles approached Enrile

02:33and shook his hand.

02:35Reyes, on the other hand,

02:36shook hands with Enrile's lawyer,

02:37Atty. Estelito Mendoza.

02:39I thank your magistrates

02:44for rendering justice to all of us.

02:48I knew all along that I will be acquitted

02:51because I have not done anything.

02:53We have not done anything in this case.

02:56And I hope that the people

02:58who filed those cases against us

03:01will examine their conscience.

03:04Reyes did not give a statement.

03:06We are vindicated.

03:08It was a long road

03:10and JB is acquitted,

03:14including Jessica Reyes.

03:18Napoles also thanked those who supported him.

03:21God is good.

03:24To everyone who prayed,

03:25thank you very much.

03:26I'm happy.

03:28Were you surprised?

03:30Of course.

03:31Really.

03:33Despite the plunder,

03:34there are still cases of 15 counts of graft

03:37against Enrile, Reyes, and Napoles,

03:40as well as other cases against Napoles.

03:43And based on the report

03:45of the GMA Integrated News Research,

03:47there is an earlier conviction

03:49that Napoles is also guilty

03:51for the plunder and the cases

03:53of malversation of public funds.

03:55It is also related to the fact that

03:57other judges in his pecking NGO

03:59were also dafted against him.

04:01For GMA Integrated News,

04:02Mackie Pulido, 24 Hours.

04:05The Philippine passport of Alice Goh

04:07has been cancelled.

04:09The Foreign Affairs Department

04:11is also investigating the allegation

04:13of an international documentary

04:15that she is a Chinese spy.

04:18Salima Refran is involved.

04:24After questioning her identity

04:26in the investigation of the Senate.

04:28I'm Filipino, I'm not a spy.

04:32Okay, just relax.

04:33Just relax.

04:35The Philippine passport

04:36of Dismissed Bantarlak Mayor Alice Goh

04:38was completely cancelled

04:40by the Department of Foreign Affairs

04:42due to the illegal operations

04:44of the Pugos in her town.

04:46The DFA said,

04:47fraudulently acquired

04:49or obtained in the wrong way

04:51her passport.

04:52In the certification of DOJ and NBI,

04:54it turns out that

04:56Goh's biometrics matched

04:58from the passport database

05:00to the biometrics of a Goh whopping

05:02in NBI files.

05:04Effective on September 30,

05:06the cancellation of her passport.

05:08The Department of Justice

05:11Having a falsified birth certificate

05:14is already very telling

05:16on her character

05:18and on what she's all about.

05:21If you try to present yourself

05:26as a Filipino,

05:27you better be a real Filipino.

05:29There is still no progress

05:30on the cancellation of Goh's passport.

05:33But the DFA also said

05:35they are seriously investigating

05:37the Chinese spy Goh

05:39who leaked the Al Jazeera documentary.

05:43Of course we're looking into that

05:45but I can't divulge the details.

05:47That's good.

05:48I'm just asking the proper authority

05:50to investigate properly

05:52for the truth to come out.

05:54On our part,

05:55we're staging legal possibility

05:59that Al Jazeera can file a case

06:01for this malicious insinuation.

06:04Where is the justice there?

06:08You will be alleged

06:09that you have no basis.

06:11Meanwhile,

06:12the Preliminary Investigation

06:14of the Department of Justice

06:15has already started

06:16on the 87 counts of money laundering

06:18related to illegal smuggling

06:20in Bambantarlac.

06:21Cassandra Lee Ong faced this

06:23but Goh didn't make it.

06:25And her brother, Sheila,

06:27is saying that she had to face

06:29the deportation hearing

06:30in the Bureau of Immigration.

06:32Aside from money laundering,

06:33Ong also faced the prosecution panel

06:35for the complaint of

06:36qualified human trafficking

06:38as well as illegal activities

06:40in the raid of Lucky South 99

06:42in Porak, Pampanga.

06:4314 victims of trafficking and torture

06:46were faced by the PNP-CIDG

06:49and Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission.

06:52We did not submit yet a counter affidavit

06:55but we instead asked for an extension

06:58for at least a very reasonable period

07:00for us to submit a counter affidavit.

07:02Given the gravity, voluminous records

07:05and complexity of both cases.

07:07For the GMA Integrated News,

07:09Salima Refra,

07:10for 24 Hours.

07:13In Bulacan,

07:14four men were killed

07:16after a chemical bomb exploded

07:19while inside a fish factory.

07:22Three of them

07:23were hoping to help a worker

07:25who was seen unconscious.

07:27For the GMA Integrated News,

07:28Jomer Apresto.

07:32Four of these workers

07:34were beaten by the authorities

07:36at the fish factory

07:37in Barangay Panghulo,

07:38or Bando, Bulacan.

07:39The victims

07:41were sitting

07:42inside a fermentation pool.

07:44According to the police,

07:45one of the victims

07:46was cleaned by the owner.

07:48But,

07:49one of the workers

07:50was shocked

07:52to see

07:53that the victim was unconscious

07:54while under the fermentation pool.

07:57He asked for help

07:58from his colleagues

07:59who were working there.

08:01After that,

08:02three of them

08:03helped him

08:04to breathe.

08:06But,

08:07they couldn't breathe.

08:09It is possible

08:10that four victims

08:11suffocated

08:12after the chemical

08:13exploded inside.

08:15When the BFP

08:17tried to retrieve them,

08:19they couldn't stay inside

08:21for long.

08:23So, they used

08:24a breathing apparatus

08:26to go down.

08:28Two of the victims

08:29were caretakers

08:30of the compound,

08:31while the other two

08:32were construction workers

08:33who worked

08:34at the nearby gym.

08:35Based on the investigation,

08:37the factory

08:38hasn't been operating

08:39for four years.

08:40So,

08:41the family of the victims

08:42should think

08:43why the fermentation pool

08:44should be cleaned.

08:46This is the gate

08:47of the compound

08:48of the fish factory

08:49where four workers

08:50died

08:51after being suffocated

08:52inside

08:53one of the fermentation pools.

08:56From that gate

08:57to where I'm walking,

08:59I can still smell

09:00the foul smell.

09:02The police

09:03is still investigating

09:04if the factory

09:05is really non-operational.

09:07The owner

09:08of the factory

09:09knows the possible

09:10consequences

09:11especially

09:12that there is no

09:13safety gear

09:14for the victims.

09:15The three of them

09:16only have

09:17rubber gloves.

09:18According to

09:19the son of one

09:20of the wing workers,

09:21they signed

09:22a waiver

09:23that they won't

09:24have their bodies

09:25autopsied.

09:26The police also said

09:27that the owner

09:28of the factory

09:29is paying

09:30a lot of expenses

09:31for the burial

09:32and burial

09:33of their family.

09:34But the family

09:35is still studying

09:36if they will

09:37file a complaint.

09:38We will also

09:39understand

09:40if we can

09:41fix it

09:42and if

09:43they will

09:44buy it

09:45from us

09:46and if it's

09:47enough.

09:48We will

09:49still look

09:50into it

09:51because

09:52we will

09:53still talk

09:54to them.

09:55We are still

09:56trying to

09:57understand

09:58if

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24 Oras: (Part 1) Pag-acquit ng Sandiganbayan kina Enrile, Napoles, at Reyes sa kasong Plunder; Kanseladong PHL Passport ni Alice Guo; Inspeksyon ni PBBM sa Batanes, atbp.

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