Ex-DOJ Sec. Aguirre sa pag-acquit kay De Lima: "I am happy for this development as she had suffered enough already"

5 months ago

Kasunod ng pagpapawalang-sala sa lahat ng drug case na isinampa laban sa kanya, balikan ang mga pinagdaanan ni dating Senadora Leila De Lima sa mahigit pitong taong paggulong ng mga hinarap niyang kaso.

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00:00Following the acquittal of all the drug gays who were filed against him,

00:05the past experiences of former Senator Laila Dilima

00:09in more than 7 years of trial of the cases she faced in the trial of Ivan Mayrina.

00:17Dilima, you are finished.

00:21In August 2016, former President Rodrigo Duterte accused Senator Laila Dilima

00:26of accepting money from the sale of drugs in the Philippines.

00:29Arrest me now!

00:33If that is what you really want, then arrest me now!

00:36Until she was accused of illegal trading, which later became a conspiracy to trade illegal drugs.

00:41I am here in the Senate, waiting for the arresting team.

00:51Since then, Dilima has been inventing accusations.

01:00Some are now accusing Dilima of all the drug cases she faced.

01:07The cases were called politically motivated by the U.S. State Department.

01:11At the same time, the Philippines was able to resolve similar cases.

01:15Amnesty International is now challenging the Marcos administration.

01:19It should investigate the people behind the baseless allegations against Dilima

01:24that led to her imprisonment.

01:26The U.S. State Department and Amnesty International have not yet reached a direct agreement with the Marcos administration.

01:33Three cases were filed against Dilima.

01:35All of them are against her for allegedly trading illegal drugs in the Philippines

01:39and for embezzling drug money so that she can use it to run for the Senate in 2016.

01:45But after 7 years of trial, Dilima was acquitted one by one.

01:50One of the accused were the next witnesses of the prosecution,

01:56including the former Bureau of Corrections OIC Rafael Ragos,

02:00who allegedly brought drug money to Dilima's house.

02:03I was just coerced.

02:05I was coerced by Secretary Aguirre and his companies.

02:13This allegation was filed by Ragos, who was previously denied by the former Justice Secretary Vitalyano Aguirre,

02:17who was involved in the cases against Dilima.

02:20Now, the former senator has been acquitted in three cases.

02:24Aguirre said that he was already expecting this.

02:26He was also happy with what happened because Dilima has been in jail for a long time.

02:31But the Inuit Presidential Council Salvador Panelo reminded that as a reaction to the acquittal,

02:36the imprisonment of Dilima is also a punishment.

02:39Dilima accused Duterte of being behind the extrajudicial killings in Davao City.

02:44This was when Dilima was appointed by the Commission on Human Rights,

02:47and the former president was also a mayor.

02:49Panelo also condemned the court's appreciation for taking revenge on the negligence of the witnesses

02:54who were against winning the jurisprudence.

02:56That's why the dismissal of the case was wrong.

02:59The court's decision was respected by Senator Bato de la Rosa,

03:02who was the chief of the PNP when Dilima was accused and the Duterte drug war was carried out.

03:07For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mejri, for 24 Horas.

Ex-DOJ Sec. Aguirre sa pag-acquit kay De Lima: "I am happy for this development as she had suffered enough already" | 24 Oras

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