Former Commission on Elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, who was a key figure in the 2004 ‘Hello Garci’ election scandal, died on Saturday, March 29. He was 87.
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00:00Former Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garciliano, who was a key figure
00:06in the 2004 Hello Garci election scandal, died on Saturday, March 29.
00:11He was 87.
00:13Camelec Region 10 Director Renato Magbutay confirmed his death.
00:16He said Garciliano died after collapsing in his family farmhouse in Bukidnon Saturday
00:21night.
00:22The Hello Garci scandal was a 2004 wiretapping controversy which featured a conversation
00:27between then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Garciliano on the canvassing of the 2004
00:32election results.
00:33Arroyo later admitted that the voice on the tape was hers, but claimed she was simply
00:37monitoring her votes and not directing Garciliano to engage in election fraud.
00:42Garciliano became a fugitive after the scandal broke, and in 2005, Congress launched a probe
00:48into the issue.
00:49In an attempt to prove he didn't leave the country during the height of the scandal, Garciliano
00:53presented a passport, which was later found to be fake, and led to his 2014 perjury indictment.