NBI recommends filing of charges vs Estrada, Villanueva, Co, others

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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) recommends the filing of charges against several officials embroiled in the anomalous flood control scandal, according to Department of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin "Boying" Remulla. (Video courtesy of Senate of the Philippines)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/09/23/nbi-recommends-filing-of-charges-vs-estrada-villanueva-co-others   Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com @manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00Before I recognize the Senate President, Secretary Remulia, you were gone for four hours.

00:08Are you at liberty to share with this committee what's going on for the past four hours?

00:14Sir, we had the NBI come over, the AMLC, and of course the NPS is housed in the DOJ compound.

00:25So we met in room 206 over the affidavit of Mr. Alcantara, and he was there present to answer questions.

00:35And we determined that the NBI would be investigating it, and on the outset they recommended the filing of charges already.

00:43So we treated this already as a complaint with the NBI as the endorsing agency.

00:49And at the same time, we contacted the AMLC and told them, we gave them a digital file of this.

00:58I mean, somebody was present already, but there's the same, we gave a digital file to the AMLC.

01:05And they already started acting on this because it is already a filed complaint with the Department of Justice.

01:11So given that, I believe that these orders have been issued already by the AMLC over the bank accounts of people.

01:18Against how many persons and who are they?

01:21Sir, the recommendation of the NBI for prosecution, and probably this is what AMLOC followed,

01:30are as follows for Mr. Alcantara, for Joel Villanueva, Senator Joel Villanueva, Senator Jingo Ejercito, Estrada,

01:44Congressman Ko, Erisaldi Ko, former Undersecretary Roberto Bernardo,

01:50and former Congresswoman Mitch Kahayon, and the crimes committed were all specified in the sheet given by the NBI to us.

02:09So far, these are the persons, but we are still looking at the case of Commissioner Lipana and his spouse,

02:16who was a contractor, since it was already touched upon by Engineer Alcantara, and we are working on that now, sir.

02:24Thank you very much, sir.

02:26Sir, may I submit to you the document given by the NBI and the received copy of the DOJ of the Sinumpang Salisay.

02:36And the case is? What specific crime?

02:41Sir, as to each one, the crimes that are...

02:56...violation of Section 3, Republic Act 3019, Article 211 of the Revised Penal Code, Indirect Bribery,

03:06and Article 217 of the Revised Penal Code, Malversation of Public Funds.

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