00:00Cassandra Leong filed a petition to the Supreme Court to let the Congress know her right to remain silent and not to answer the questions in the hearing.
00:11The congressmen are already overreacting in their efforts to answer Ong.
00:16We have a report from Joseph Moro.
00:20Cassandra Leong is back to the camera after being hospitalized after experiencing low blood pressure in the hearing last Wednesday.
00:27Ong is being investigated by the camera for his involvement in the operation of Lucky South 99 in Porac, Pampanga.
00:34But Ong's lawyer said that his client would prefer him to be jailed than to be forced to answer to the Congress.
00:41He said that even in the women's correctional, his mental health is deteriorating.
00:48His lawyers filed a petition to the Supreme Court to ask the Congress and the Senate to let Ong know his right to remain silent and his right to defend himself.
00:59They also asked for a temporary restraining order against three committees of the Senate and four committees of the Congress or the Quad Committee.
01:05When he is being invoked for his right to remain silent or right against self-incrimination, he is being shouted at and mocked.
01:15That's the only thing we want to stop.
01:17According to Ong's lawyers, they did not intend to stop the investigations conducted by the Senate and the camera and they will continue the hearings if necessary.
01:27According to Congressman Dan Fernandez, the chairman of one of the committees of the camera that is being investigated,
01:32Ong cannot use his right to remain silent, but he can invoke his right against self-incrimination.
01:38But what will he do if he doesn't know what he's being asked?
01:43Senator Riza Conteveras is also convinced that the Supreme Court will stop the power of the Senate to issue a subpoena and contempt.
01:51Yesterday, Ong filed a complaint of qualified human trafficking and other offenses, and he was officially locked in South 99, Pogo.
01:58Ong's camp has not yet seen the details of the complaint.
02:02Ong is also facing a case of money laundering together with former Bambantarlak Mayor Alice Guo.
02:08Guo also has a deportation case.
02:10Fake passport, for being an alien actually, trying to pass yourself off as a Filipino.
02:15But he will finish his other cases before he faces immigration cases.
02:20According to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, Ong's connection with Pogo, Bambantarlak and Porak, Pampanga is getting clearer.
02:28The former big boss of Lucky South 99 and those who helped Guo hide in Singapore and Indonesia.
02:35The search warrant of the Supreme Court is also asking to investigate some parts of Lucky South 99
02:41because of the claim that some foreigners were buried there.
02:44Joseph Morong is the reporter for GMA Integrated News.
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