00:00Former House Speaker Martin Romualdez avoids detention by getting hospitalized,
00:05despite his arrest for a non-bailable plunder case courtesy of the Office of the Ombudsman.
00:09The Ombudsman charged the Leyte representative on Monday, September 7. He allegedly got 7.44
00:15billion pesos in kickbacks from flood control and other government projects. But as of September 9,
00:20Romualdez remains confined in a hospital in San Juan City, evading his supposed detention.
00:25Past lunchtime on Monday, Ombudsman Boyeng Remulia announced the filing of plunder against Romualdez.
00:31Interior and Local Government Chief John Vic Remulia said earlier that day they were ready to arrest the former Speaker.
00:37But Romualdez went to Cardinal Santos Medical Center by 4pm that day before the police could arrest him.
00:43Ayan ang mahirap dito eh. Wala kaming karapatan na intercept sila bago lubabas yung warrant of arrest.
00:50So, telegraphed lagi kasi. Na-file na. Alam nilang na raffle na. So, inuunahan nila.
00:58The Romualdez camp filed at 6.30pm an urgent motion for continued hospital confinement under custody.
01:04Before 8pm, Remulia announced outside the hospital that Romualdez had been arrested.
01:09The Philippine National Police implemented the warrant, read his rights, and took his mugshot while he was in bed.
01:15As of this reporting, Romualdez remains at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center until the court resolves his motion for hospital
01:21confinement.
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