00:00The publishing company agent who was involved in the DepEd Textbook Scam is said to have been dead for three decades.
00:10He was released because his lawyer was willing to give up his life for the case, but he was arrested.
00:17Mark Salazar has the story.
00:23This is the video of the actual arrest of the NBI in the case of Jessica Francisco for the Estafa case.
00:29They received a tip that this Francisco is actually Mary Ann Maslog, a publishing company agent who was involved in a bigger case,
00:39the 24 million pesos textbook scam in the Department of Education.
00:44It has been three decades.
00:59It was confirmed that Francisco is Maslog after comparing the fingerprints.
01:04After thorough comparison and analysis, we got 14 identical reads characteristics.
01:11We are now 100% sure that Mary Ann Evans Basa Tupa Smith, also known as Mary Ann Maslog, and Jessica Cece Francisco are one and the same person.
01:26Maslog seemed to be alive from the death.
01:29In the records of Sandigan Bayan, his lawyer declared that he was already dead.
01:35That's why he was declared dead by the court and he was acquitted in the Graft case.
01:40His two co-accused DepEd officials were sentenced to 10 years in prison
01:47because of breaching the document of the Department of Budget to be paid by Maslog's company in 1998.
01:54Our Sandigan Bayan believed that she's already dead.
01:58She was not involved in the decision.
02:01Only those two were convicted.
02:03Illegal use of alias and falsification is the only thing that the NBI can accuse Maslog of.
02:09That's why he was easily acquitted.
02:11But...
02:12Excuse me. I'm sorry.
02:13We will release her now.
02:15But here it is.
02:18Bench warrant of arrest issued by the Sandigan Bayan.
02:22And there is no bail recommended.
02:24So we will hold her for now.
02:26She will be released later. It's still hot.
02:29The problem with the bench warrant that was shown by the good director to the media a while ago
02:35was just a mere photocopy.
02:37So as councils, we would demand that we be shown the original copy of the bench warrant
02:46that was issued by the Sandigan Bayan.
02:48A while ago, the NBI turned over Maslog to the Sandigan Bayan
02:52and he will remain in the Sheriff's Office.
02:55Tomorrow, he will be released by the 2nd Division.
02:58In court, the NBI needs to prove that they arrested Mary Ann Maslog.
03:03We heard the statement of Maslog's lawyer, Atty. Mark Senya.
03:07He said that they will just get documents from the court
03:11to understand the end of this story.
03:14For GMA Integrated News,
03:17I'm Mark Salazar.
03:18Stay tuned for 24 Hours.
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