00:00 The Department of Justice is now in charge of the case of missing soap makers. This is after the removal of case number one.
00:13 Until now, the case of missing soap makers was not dismissed. The center of the news is from Louisa Erispe.
00:25 It's been more than a year since the missing soap makers case in the country was dismissed.
00:30 It's becoming clear now what blood money is being used to fix the families of the victims of the case.
00:37 Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla himself said that they received a report that some families are being paid to back the complaint.
00:48 Case number one, or the missing soap maker, John Claude Inonog, is one of the families that withdrew their complaint.
00:56 One of the family members was here earlier.
00:59 He didn't come, but he told us that they had settled already.
01:05 We have affidavits on record about them withdrawing the cases.
01:11 But you can see the strategy of the lawyers when they accused the case number one. It was really to have the only standing case,
01:19 with the standing warrant of arrest, dismissed by settling the families, settling with the families.
01:29 The PTV is trying to get the statement of Inonog's father, Butch Inonog, but he hasn't received a response if they really withdrew the complaint.
01:39 But DOJ said that the case of Inonog is not yet being thoroughly dismissed by the panel.
01:44 But it weakened the case against the respondents and the families who were affected by the complaint.
01:53 Case number one is the only case with which a warrant of arrest was issued against suspects related to the Manila arena.
02:03 But this is very alarming because it is the only case where the accused group of Patidongan and Company are implicated in the missing Sabungero cases.
02:16 The other families who are missing in Sabungero are facing a lot of difficulties because of the withdrawal of case number one.
02:24 For them, they have been waiting for justice for a long time, so it hurts them that the family decided to withdraw the case.
02:33 The big question for us is why? Because from the start, they started the fight.
02:38 We only gave them strength because they have strong evidence.
02:43 For us, there's nothing. So we really don't know why, what's the reason.
02:51 We expect that case to be the one because the other one with a warrant is also one of the cases we are suing.
02:59 Now, we've been talking since the beginning that we will fight until the end.
03:05 For now, the DOJ promised that they will not release other complaints that the families of the missing Sabungero are being accused of.
03:14 They asked for a written report from the National Bureau of Investigation and PNP-CIDG for the investigation.
03:22 But definitely something has to happen with regards to the police organization on how they will handle the case.
03:29 Because if we are not satisfied, we will find other ways to make the case move.
