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Guo’s lawyer Stephen David is assured the court docket dedication order in Camp Crame will prevail
MANILA, Philippines – Earlier than its 13-hour-long listening to ended on Thursday, September 19, the Home quad committee ordered to ship Cassandra Ong to the Correctional Institute for Ladies (CIW) for 30 days, whereas combating to take custody of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo.
Ong has been detained on the Home for contempt, however on Thursday, agitated lawmakers determined to commit her to CIW starting September 26 attributable to her lawyer Ferdinand Topacio’s assertion that his consumer would fairly be in Correctional “than be humiliated” by the committee.
Ong defined that it was an announcement she made to Topacio below stress.
Ong has no court docket warrant but, though she faces felony investigations for human trafficking and cash laundering.
This Home order got here after Ong was cited in contempt for the second time, as her solutions on the place she went to highschool didn’t fulfill lawmakers.
“Since Miss Cassandra Ong was already cited in contempt, could I transfer that she be detained on the Correctional Establishment for Ladies,” Antipolo Metropolis 2nd District Consultant Romeo Acop moved, which was authorised after nobody objected.
Ong is an officer of the Whirlwind actual property agency that leased its compound to the Fortunate South 99 POGO, raided over allegations of trafficking and torture. Ong seems in lots of paperwork because the Fortunate South consultant, however the 24-year-old maintains she was merely a lessor.
The complaints for cash laundering allege that Ong was a enterprise affiliate of Guo, which is a relationship deeper than what each girls declare they’ve. Ong is the girlfriend of Guo’s brother Wesley.
Guo, however, was cited in contempt once more by the Home, and in consequence, was ordered detained in Batasan. Nevertheless, this can be a complication as a result of the court docket in Capas, Tarlac (later transferred to Valenzuela) dealing with her bailable graft cost had already dedicated her to the custodial heart of the Philippine Nationwide Police (PNP) in Camp Crame.
Guo defined to the committee that not solely does she “really feel secure” in Camp Crame, she was additionally suggested by attorneys to only await the opposite prices so they may publish bail for all on the similar time.
Her trafficking prices had been filed in a Pasig court docket this week, and if the choose finds advantage to take action, the arrest warrant for that will be non-bailable.
The committee determined to let Guo return to Camp Crame Thursday evening, however lawmakers expect her switch to the Home detention services after her arraignment in Valenzuela Friday morning, September 20.
Guo’s lawyer Stephen David is assured that guidelines are on their facet {that a} court docket dedication order takes priority. It’s what the Senate adopted too when they didn’t insist to take custody of her.
“Legal instances take priority, the one which determines guilt or innocence is the court docket. The aim of the Home is to compel you to seem, however she’s going to seem anyway,” mentioned David.
David mentioned they’ll file a movement to elevate the detention order on Friday earlier than the Home committee and if denied, “we are going to go to the Supreme Court docket.”
Requested if he was anticipating a tense tug-of-war between the Home and the court docket over custody on Friday, David mentioned “no as a result of the regional trial court docket is cognizant of its function to say its jurisdiction.”
Like Ong, Guo maintains she is just a lessor to the POGO in Bamban, Tarlac. Though she claims she divested from the actual property firm when she ran and received as Bamban mayor, the grievance in opposition to her alleges that this divestment was faux. – Rappler.com
