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Zarate follows up on complaints against General Parlade which invoke both graft and the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to hold him accountable for red-tagging. Martires says the fact-finding inquiry may be complete this month.
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Lian Buan
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Zarate asks why there is an incrase in lifestyle check budget when Martires said last year they would stop lifestyle checks. Martires said they continue to do so, not based on a complaint, but for investigations that need one in order to proceed.
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Martires talks again about weaponizing SALNs, says he was a victim too about how the media can "destroy" one's reputation.
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Martires says he wants an amendment of RA 6713 that anyone who makes a comment about one's SALN should likewise be liable, referring to what he said were unfair reports. He says RA 6713 authorizes only publication, not commentary.
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Lian Buan
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Martires: Kami ang sinisisi bakit hindi nagre-release ng SALN. I don't know what is the interest in getting the SALN of the President and the Vice President. Sila lang ba ang capable of corruption, it starts from the roots.
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Zarate: Isn't it dangerous to punish someone who would ask? Freedom of expression is a constititutional right, so is transparency and accountability.
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Malacañang and Office of the Ombudsman have been passing the buck to each other when it comes to Duterte's SALN. Martires says he stands by his circular, where the only ways you can get one's SALN is if you get the consent of the person, or if it's part of a gov't investigation.
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Lian Buan
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Martires: I am willing to be removed from office if only to defend that memorandum circular. He's talking about Memorandum Circular No. 1 Series of 2020 that restricts public access to the SALNs in their jurisdiction, President, VP, constitutional heads.
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Martires said he has expanded the fact-finding inquiry started last year in the DOH, to cover the alleged overpricing. Asked specifically if it would include the likes of PS-DBM Usec Lloyd Christopher Lao, Martires simply says: "No one will be spared."
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Martires said he would fight to regularize the job-order personnel in his office, says that to not do so would be a violation of human rights.
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Lian Buan
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In April 2020, DOJ relaxed the rules on clemency. Gabriela Rep Arlene Brosas asks why the same was not granted to 75-year-old political prisoner Jesus Alegre who died in June this year after 16 years in jail.
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Lian Buan
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Rep Zarate now discussing the AO 35 panel or the EJK panel, points out possible conflict of interest as there are allegations some killings are by state agents. Secretary Menardo Guevarra says they work under the principle that everyone in the panel adheres to rule of law.
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Lian Buan
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DOJ Usec Adrian Sugay says AO 35/EJK investigations still pending. The general complain about this panel is that cases move slowly and there is wanting result, despite having annual budget of minimum P10 million.
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Lian Buan
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"We're not hiding anything," said Guevarra, defending the fact that the drug war review reports have not been made public. The prelim report was only publicized by way of a statement, full report secret. The 2nd report's content is still unknown.
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Lian Buan
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Guevarra says they continue to monitor congressional probes into pandemic funds, "at kung sa tingin po namin kailangang kumilos na po kami, then hindi po DOJ, kundi NBI, ang maaaring mag-conduct ng kaukulang investigation."
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Rep Argel Cabatbat hits the budget cut for NBI, says sensational cases are still lodged before the NBI for their professionalism. NBI has a proposed 2022 budget of P1.9 billion, lower than their 2021 current budget P2.3 billion.
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Lian Buan
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Zarate points out how state agents can "game" the prosecutorial processes to go after activists, but Guevarra says "it's a problem much wider than the DOJ can address on its own," says it needs to be threshed out in a bigger venue.
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Lian Buan
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Guevarra says the PACC corruption council is different from their task force because the former is preventive via information campaign, and the latter is investigative and prosecutorial.
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