00:00Aside from corruption and vote buying and selling,
00:02there is another thing that the authorities are monitoring right now,
00:05during the election.
00:07This is a different type of fraud,
00:10including the well-known scam
00:13where a candidate was promised a sure win in exchange for a big prize.
00:19Ryan Leziguez is in the center of the news.
00:24The Commission on Elections of Comelec is taking care
00:27of the candidates in different types of fraud during the election.
00:31Comelec made a statement after the people of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, or CIDG,
00:37arrested the three men who promised a sure win in the upcoming election.
00:42According to Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudianco,
00:45those who promised such a thing are just fools because they cannot manipulate the result of the election.
00:51We are announcing Article 293,
00:55Robbery with Threat Intimidation or Robbery Extortion of the Republic of the Philippines.
01:01According to CIDG Acting Director of Police Brigadier General Nicolás Torre III,
01:06the Commission on Elections of Comelec is arresting the suspects.
01:10Their modus is to allocate a candidate who will win in the May 2025 elections
01:15in exchange for 90 million pesos.
01:17They promised their target victim a sure win because they can access the automated result.
01:23Aside from this, they are also IT specialists.
01:27The suspects' modus is to allocate a candidate who will win in the May 2025 elections
01:30in exchange for 90 million pesos.
01:35According to them, the suspects' modus is to allocate a candidate who will win in the May 2025 elections.
01:40The victims immediately appealed to CIDG and this is where the entrapment operation started.
01:45According to the victims, in 2019, they were the first to approach the group.
01:49They did not notice this and they were both defeated in the election.
01:53In 2022, they approached the group again and gave them 5 million pesos
01:59so that they will not know the result of the election in their country.
02:03But the father was defeated again.
02:05And now in the 2025 elections, their son is still the same.
02:10They gave the first payment of 2 million pesos for the plan of arrest.
02:15This is where the three were arrested.
02:17The other five were able to escape.
02:20I have no intention to ask for support from them because I can't do what they are asking for.
02:28According to Commander Commissioner Emy Ferolino,
02:31it is better for the candidates in the campaign to use the money to pay for the robbery in Nagalog.
02:38Comelec denied that they are connected to the agency.
02:41We already have a certification from our personal department
02:45that these persons are not in the list of employees of the Commission on Elections.
02:53They do not have a record in the Commission on Elections.
02:56But they pretend to be wearing a jacket with the logo of Comelec.
03:01They have an office, we saw that.
03:03They have props, we saw that.
03:06But to hack the Comelec servers, I don't think they can do that.
03:12And as of now, they only have props.
03:16We are now in the process of examining it.
03:18The suspects are facing several cases, including robbery with intimidation or violence,
03:24robbery extortion,
03:26they are also facing violations of the revised penal code
03:29in relation with Cyber Crime Prevention Act of 2012
03:32and Unibus Election Code of the Philippines
03:35Authorities have also called on other victims of the group
03:38to come forward to file their cases.
03:42From Campo Crame, Ryan Lisigues for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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