00:00According to the panel, a counter affidavit was submitted by the lawyers of Harry Bote.
00:05It would appear that he had a document which was notarized, but he was in Abu Dhabi.
00:12So the panel opted to give the respondent a chance to call for a clarificatory hearing
00:19which would be scheduled anytime between now and the 16th of December.
00:26The purpose is to clarify certain issues and to find out really where Mr. Harry Roque is at this point in time.
00:34Under our rules, the prosecutor should be given the opportunity to examine whoever it is who submits counter affidavits.
00:42And in this particular case, the whereabouts of Tiny Harry Roque is unknown to us.
00:48There is a document that comes out that he is outside of the country.
00:52Now, even if he submits a counter affidavit through his lawyers,
00:55it does not mean that the panel will immediately accept it
00:58because number one, it is not in the jurisdiction of our panel here in the Philippines.
01:03The only way that we can consider that is if he executes the affidavit
01:07and has it notarized or up to still before the embassy of the country where he is at that particular time.
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