00:00The Office of the Ombudsman orders Senators Alan Peter Cayetano and Robin Padilla to answer a complaint filed by Tindig
00:06Pilipinas of obstruction of justice.
00:09Also ordered to reply is former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Mao Aplaska.
00:13The order gives the three respondents 15 days to file their counter-affidavits to the complaints of Tindig Pilipinas,
00:19which accuses them of impeding the serving of an ICC warrant to Senator Ronald Bato de la Rosa in May.
00:25Tindig Pilipinas had accused Cayetano, who was then elected as the Senate President,
00:29of preventing NBI agents from taking custody of de la Rosa by virtue of the ICC warrant.
00:34Padilla is included in the complaint based on his own admission that he let de la Rosa ride with him
00:39in his vehicle to leave the Senate premises.
00:41Under Presidential Decree No. 1829, obstruction of justice is punishable by between 4 to 6 years imprisonment, fines, and perpetual
00:49disqualification from public office.
00:51And, according to the majority of the commissioners who have turned water called Pasadmaster?
00:54Description by ESO, by ESO, of course.
00:54In the
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