00:00People with something to hide will beg, steal, borrow, and bribe just to have a get-out-of-jail pass.
00:06Then again, there are a few people who simply cannot be bought,
00:09such as the kin of one of the missing cockfighting enthusiasts
00:12who rejected a million-and-a-half-peso offer to stay quiet and drop their charges filed with the DOJ.
00:20Our Ryan Lesigues has more on PNP chief's order of an in-depth probe on this latest development.
00:26Multiple cases are now being faced by the couple arrested by the PNP-CIDJ in Antipolo Rizal
00:34after attempting to bribe the family of a missing cockfighter.
00:37According to CIDJ Acting Director, Police Major General Robert Alexander Morico II,
00:43the couple offered a 1.5 million-peso bribe to withdraw.
00:46The case filed before the Department of Justice or DOJ by Jaja Pilarta, the partner of John-Claude Inonog.
00:53Inonog is one of the cockfighters who went missing back in 2022.
00:58The complainant is really serious na iporso yung kaso.
01:08But she doesn't want to be harassed also.
01:12And their safety is parang threatened.
01:18That's the reason kung bakit.
01:20She asked the head coach, CIDJ.
01:23Results of an initial investigation show that in exchange for 1.5 million pesos,
01:28she was being asked to keep silent, disobey a court summons, and completely withdraw.
01:33The case filed with the DOJ against businessman Atung Ang and others.
01:38Ang is allegedly the mastermind behind the crime.
01:40Other two, I couldn't do it for.
01:43And they are practically harassing yung complainant natin.
01:49Pinupuntahan sa bayan and everything.
01:51The suspected couple had been charged with grave coercion and obstruction of justice.
01:56It also turned out that they are relatives of the missing John-Claude Inonog.
02:01According to the CIDJ, based on CCTV footage, the suspects who tried to bribe Pilarta visited her house several times.
02:09We have the CCTV footage and everything.
02:11That's why we will be filing a case for grave coercion under Republic Act 286 of the Revised Penal Code and obstruction of justice under PD 1829.
02:27The complainant said it was the parents of her former partner who handed her the money, insisting it was for her children,
02:34but then was shocked when they asked her to sign a recantation of the complaint she filed against the suspects.
02:40Aside from the arrested couple, the CIDJ is also hunting down their two accomplices who escaped.
02:45Acting PNP Chief Police Lieutenant General Jose Melencion Artakis Jr. has ordered a third investigation to find out who is behind the bribery attempt.
02:54Ryan Lisiguez from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines, Kamkrami!
