The Department of Justice will reopen the criminal investigation into Senator Koko Pimentel's alleged quarantine breach after the prosecutor received a copy of incident reports from the Makati Medical Center.
, Pimentel said he was not a Person Under Investigation on March 25. The senator added his coronavirus test did not make him a PUI, but"simply VIP."
Prosecutor Bendoval said that he received on September 4 a memorandum from the National Bureau of Investigation which contained incident reports from Makati Medical Center Medical Director Dr Saturnino Javier. "The complainant and respondent are hereby directed to submit their respective comment on the said memorandum report by the NBI, particularly on the said incident reports of the MMC, on or before September 21, 2020," said Bendoval.Pimentel earlier said in his affidavit that the complainant, former law dean Rico Quicho, was an incompetent witness.
On Facebook, Quicho said he"would like to thank Makati Medical Center for its courage to ferret out the truth."Quicho filed a complaint for violation of Section 9 of Republic Act 11332 which punishes the"non-cooperation of the person or entities identified as having the notifiable disease.
The use of the broad law for quarantine-related arrests has been criticized by human rights lawyers, and has been junked in at least two cases by the courts on cases involving activists arrested for either
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