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00:00The Court of Appeals overturned the agreement of the Manila Regional Trial Court that the six accused in the disappearance of soap operators in Manila Arena in 2022 can be sentenced.
00:10The relatives of one of the missing people asked for this to be the beginning of justice for their loved ones in life.
00:16Always the first in the news, Salima Refran, Exclusive.
00:22The Department of Justice again wanted to arrest the six accused in the disappearance of soap operators in Manila Arena in 2022.
00:32The Court of Appeals overturned the decision of the Manila RTC Branch 40 that the accused in the non-bailable cases of kidnapping and serious illegal detention can be sentenced.
00:44Well, the decision of the Court of Appeals was to deny the bail that was granted by the judge in the trial court to the accused.
00:54In the resolution of the Court of Appeals, he said that he saw a lot of points that were not evaluated properly or were not balanced,
01:08that the judge considered the granting of the bail that should not be.
01:12This was the result of the CA's objection to the Petition for Certiorari of the Prosecution where there was a grave abuse of discretion of the trial court.
01:21In the 18th page of the decision, the CA said that the court abused his discretion in granting the bail to the accused because of the strong evidence of guilt.
01:32The CA also denied the recantation of one of the witnesses because he did not return the previous statements to the court.
01:41The six security personnel of Manila Arena in Santa Ana, Manila, were accused of being the last person to ride in the van with the missing soap operators and the driver they kidnapped.
01:54The DOJ issued a reward of P1 million for the information for their arrest.
02:02They were arrested in a rented house in Paranaque in September 2023.
02:08In December 2023, they were allowed to pay P3 million each.
02:15The Manila RTC Branch 40 has yet to take action on the motion for re-arrest of the prosecution because the court only received the decision of the Court of Appeals yesterday.
02:25The accused's camp denied the motion for reconsideration to the CA.
02:31Even though the families of all six missing soap operators left the country, they still have relatives who are determined to continue the case.
02:40Like the partner of John Claude Inunog, Jaja.
02:44May God have mercy on us all who are still believing in our justice here in the Philippines.
02:51It's a good thing that the opportunity came to us.
02:55But I hope that we will continue to fight.
02:59I hope that this is the chance for us to get justice for the people we are looking for.
03:06I hope that they won't be broken-hearted.
03:08If they have something to fight for and if they really want to get justice for those who have lost their loved ones, they should fight.
03:19Aside from the case of six missing soap operators in Manila Arena,
03:23the case of the disappearance of a former master agent, Ricardo Lasco, in San Pablo, Laguna, RTC, is also being investigated.
03:31The investigation of the disappearance of 27 missing soap operators is ongoing.
03:37This is the first news in Neymarafran for GMA Integrated News.
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