00:00Following the acquittal of all the drug gays who were filed against him,
00:05the past experiences of former Senator Laila Dilima
00:09in more than 7 years of trial of the cases she faced in the trial of Ivan Mayrina.
00:17Dilima, you are finished.
00:21In August 2016, former President Rodrigo Duterte accused Senator Laila Dilima
00:26of accepting money from the sale of drugs in the Philippines.
00:29Arrest me now!
00:33If that is what you really want, then arrest me now!
00:36Until she was accused of illegal trading, which later became a conspiracy to trade illegal drugs.
00:41I am here in the Senate, waiting for the arresting team.
00:51Since then, Dilima has been inventing accusations.
01:00Some are now accusing Dilima of all the drug cases she faced.
01:07The cases were called politically motivated by the U.S. State Department.
01:11At the same time, the Philippines was able to resolve similar cases.
01:15Amnesty International is now challenging the Marcos administration.
01:19It should investigate the people behind the baseless allegations against Dilima
01:24that led to her imprisonment.
01:26The U.S. State Department and Amnesty International have not yet reached a direct agreement with the Marcos administration.
01:33Three cases were filed against Dilima.
01:35All of them are against her for allegedly trading illegal drugs in the Philippines
01:39and for embezzling drug money so that she can use it to run for the Senate in 2016.
01:45But after 7 years of trial, Dilima was acquitted one by one.
01:50One of the accused were the next witnesses of the prosecution,
01:56including the former Bureau of Corrections OIC Rafael Ragos,
02:00who allegedly brought drug money to Dilima's house.
02:03I was just coerced.
02:05I was coerced by Secretary Aguirre and his companies.
02:13This allegation was filed by Ragos, who was previously denied by the former Justice Secretary Vitalyano Aguirre,
02:17who was involved in the cases against Dilima.
02:20Now, the former senator has been acquitted in three cases.
02:24Aguirre said that he was already expecting this.
02:26He was also happy with what happened because Dilima has been in jail for a long time.
02:31But the Inuit Presidential Council Salvador Panelo reminded that as a reaction to the acquittal,
02:36the imprisonment of Dilima is also a punishment.
02:39Dilima accused Duterte of being behind the extrajudicial killings in Davao City.
02:44This was when Dilima was appointed by the Commission on Human Rights,
02:47and the former president was also a mayor.
02:49Panelo also condemned the court's appreciation for taking revenge on the negligence of the witnesses
02:54who were against winning the jurisprudence.
02:56That's why the dismissal of the case was wrong.
02:59The court's decision was respected by Senator Bato de la Rosa,
03:02who was the chief of the PNP when Dilima was accused and the Duterte drug war was carried out.
03:07For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mejri, for 24 Horas.
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