00:01The Sandigan Bayan suspends Jingoy Estrada as senator over his graft case for at least three months.
00:07Alan Peter Cayetano asks the Supreme Court to recognize him as Senate President.
00:12The alleged former bodyguards of ex-Congressman Zaldico rehash their corruption allegations.
00:18The Ateneo de Manila University is studying whether to withdraw from the UAAP this coming season
00:23after the deaths of players Rene Baterboña and Divine Adili.
00:26And President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the Philippines is open to a visiting forces agreement with Germany.
00:41The Sandigan Bayan 2nd Division suspends Jingoy Estrada as senator for at least three months over his graft case related
00:47to flood control corruption.
00:49When the 2nd Division arraigned Estrada last June 4, the justices mentioned his possible suspension and asked him to comment
00:55within 10 days.
00:56The Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act mandates an incumbent public officer should be suspended if he or she is
01:02facing a graft case.
01:03Estrada is facing one count of graft before the 2nd Division and one count of plunder and another count of
01:09graft before the 5th Division.
01:11The Ombudsman charged him on May 28 and he has been detained at the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas
01:16since June 1.
01:17Estrada is the highest ranking official so far to be arrested over the multi-billion peso flood control corruption.
01:23The Ombudsman says case records point to an accumulated sum of illicit payouts amounting to over 573 million pesos which
01:31were allegedly systematically delivered to Estrada.
01:35Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and his senator allies ask the Supreme Court to recognize him as Senate President.
01:41Cayetano files a petition for certiorari and prohibition with a request for a status quo ante order.
01:47A certiorari is filed to ask for a review of another body's decision while a status quo ante order can
01:53preserve the last and uncontested state of things.
01:55In their petition, the Cayetano block wants the High Court to order the members of the new majority to stop
02:01performing the duties they assumed from June 3.
02:04Cayetano also wants the Gachalian block to refrain from implementing measures approved or passed on the said date.
02:10They also want Senate officers and personnel to reassume their roles prior to the June 3 proceedings.
02:15The other petitioners are Senators Loren Legarda, Pia Cayetano, Jingoy Estrada, Bongo, Rodante Marcoleta, Aimee Marcos, Robin Hood Padilla, Camille
02:25Villar, and former Senate Secretary Jose Luis Montales.
02:29Senators Joel Villanueva and Mark Villar are not signatories.
02:32Sen. Bato de la Rosa is still in hiding.
02:35Jingoy Estrada is included among the petitioners despite being detained on plunder and graft charges and suspended from office because
02:41of these.
02:43The alleged former bodyguards of ex-Congressman Zaldico rehashed their corruption allegations on Tuesday, June 16 while dragging new personalities
02:52into the controversy.
02:53They claimed that Senators Cheese Escudero and Kiko Pangilinan and Commission on Elections Chairperson George Garcia received kickback money from
03:01CO.
03:01A photo of Pangilinan with his wife Sharon Cuneta and their two children in a hangar was flashed on a
03:07wide LED screen but no context was provided.
03:10Pangilinan denies the allegations.
03:12He says the move is connected to his appointment as chairperson of the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee that will investigate
03:17the flood control scam.
03:19Garcia also denies the allegations against him and points out inconsistencies in the statements.
03:24It was previously claimed that he had received four pieces of luggage but now the alleged ex-bodyguards say Garcia
03:30was given only a small bag allegedly filled with cash.
03:33Garcia notes this is the problem when someone is dictating what they will say and not the truth.
03:39Escudero has yet to give his reaction to the media.
03:42Former Congressman Mike Defensor, who acted as moderator, insists the event had been scheduled as a Blue Ribbon Committee hearing.
03:48Senator Erwin Tulfo, the recognized chairperson of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, says the hearing was unauthorized.
03:55The Ateneo de Manila University is studying whether to withdraw from the UAAP this coming season.
04:01This after the deaths of basketball players Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili.
04:06University President Father Bobby Yaps says the school is, quote, still studying a possible withdrawal from Season 89, which is
04:12set to kick off this September.
04:14He says their players have been dealing with the trauma and the firms that, quote, it does not make sense
04:18to let them play.
04:19Meantime, multiple government agencies also launched probes into the deaths of Baterbonia and Adili, including the PNP CIDG and the
04:26NBI.
04:27The MVP Sports Foundation denies the CIDG's claims it is the foundation autonomously and independently running the Ateneo men's basketball
04:35team.
04:35MVP SF President Alfredo Panlilio clarifies it only provides financial support to the Blue Eagles.
04:41Former Blue Eagles head coach Tab Baldwin and former team manager Epok Kimpo also resigned from their posts.
04:49Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says Manila is open to forging a status of visiting forces agreement with Berlin.
04:56The increased security and defense ties are revealed in a press conference Tuesday, June 16, during the state visit of
05:02German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
05:04The trip marks the first visit by a German head of state to the Philippines in 63 years.
05:08With the volatility that is happening in the geopolitical world right now, the best path to stability is to have
05:19partnerships, is to have a wide base of alliances.
05:26If the VFA, if we came to an agreement and we feel that it is time to have it, the
05:31Philippines would certainly entertain that possibility very warmly.
05:35In 2025, the Philippines and Germany signed a defense cooperation agreement.
05:40In the same press conference, Marcos talks about corruption in government.
05:44We have to find those who are found to be part of this system of corruption, that they will be
05:57punished and that they will provide restitution to the Filipino people.
06:05And that's today's wrap. I'm JC Gutinga. Thank you for watching. Click the link below for the full story.
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