Friday, October 24, 2008
Yesterday the hearing at the Senate begins and the PNP officials who attended the 77th Interpol conference in Russia that were involved in a scandal. De la Paz and his wife Maria Fe were caught carrying undeclared cash worth 105,000 euros, or P6.9-million, at the departure area of a Moscow airport last Oct. 11 after they attended the Interpol conference together with seven other police officials.
During the hearing held at the Senate it was noticed that Philippine National Police comptroller Director Eliseo de la Paz was not present thus prompted Senator Meriam Defensor Santiago to issue a warrant of his arrest for snubbing the said hearing.
de la Paz was advised by his lawyer not to attend the hearing and questioned the Senate commitee at the Supreme Court asking if they have the jurisdiction to investigate the case.
As of the presstime the warrant of arrest was not yet issued since Senator Juliana Pilar “Pia” Cayetano, who is the Senate officer-in-charge and Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. is in the Europe for official functions, could not yet sign the warrant because it might require the backing of the majority of the senators.
Villar is due to arrive today and expected to sign the said warrant of arrest.
Until then we would not know the truth. Why is de le Paz hiding through technicalities just not to attend the senate hearing? Is he hiding something?
We hope that the issues will be cleared in the next few weeks. As we all know that tis is the Philippines and matters like that would take months if not years to be resolved or will it be resolved at all?
What do you think?
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