00:00We're in the protected witness in the Department of Justice
00:05of the DPWH Engineers, Henry Alcantara, Price Hernandez at JP Mendoza,
00:11as the parents of Curly and Sara Discaia,
00:14as the parents of the Manumaliang Flood Control Projects.
00:18According to Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulia,
00:21it is to be able to provide protection for their own personalidad
00:24for their own personal life.
00:28Ngayon pa man, hindi pa sila may tuturing na state witness
00:31dahil may ibang kondisyon para dito.
00:34We will be needing their cooperation
00:38and we will be needing more time
00:43for them to be able to gather different documents that are important to us.
00:49Kasi dyan talaga nakasalalay ang ebidensya na kinaharap.
00:54Hindi lang ito kwento, pero mayroong mga notes, ledgers at lahat ng kasama
00:59na maaaring magturo sa mga taong may pananagutan sa kinabukasan sa mga darating na araw.
01:08Yung state witness status kasi, we're very careful about that.
01:12It takes a lot of doing to declare a person as a state witness
01:17because you're freeing them completely from criminal liability.
