Murder cases filed vs. Teves
NBI files raps at DOJ, solon still abroad
THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed criminal complaints against Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. for his alleged involvement in the killing of 10 persons, including Negros Oriental Gov. Roel R. Degamo on March 4, 2023.
The complaints were filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ), which is expected to summon Teves and require him to file his counter-affidavit.
Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla said Teves was charged with multiple counts of murder, multiple counts of frustrated murder, and multiple counts of attempted murder.
Remulla said there were no other respondents in the complaints.
“What I know is Teves is the only respondent in the complaint that was filed because the investigation is still ongoing for other cases and other suspects and other roles and crimes,” he said.
Remulla said once the summons are issued to Teves’ last known address, the suspended legislator “has to personally appear to swear by the contents of his counter-affidavit.”
“He has to come home or they will file the case in court and a warrant will be issued in absentia,” Remulla said.
If a warrant of arrest is issued and Teves is not arrested or refuses to surrender, then he becomes a fugitive from justice.
“He will lose a lot of things if he becomes a fugitive. Cancellation of passport is one. So, he will have a hard time moving around,” Remulla said.
Remulla also stood pat on his disclosure that
Teves was to return to the Philippines on Wednesday, May 17.
He said Teves is “ticketed” or has secured a ticket for a flight to the Philippines, noting that the Department of Foreign Affairs cannot cancel the lawmaker’s passport “unless there are legal grounds.”
send temperatures soaring.
There is a two-thirds chance that at least one of the next five years will see global temperatures exceed the more ambitious target set out in the Paris accords on limiting climate change, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.
Locally, several areas in Bicol Region and Western Visayas experienced a heat index of 46°C on Wednesday, according to the state weather bureau.
PAGASA classifies heat indices reaching 42°C to 51°C as under “dangerous” level, which may cause heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
The highest computed heat index was recorded in Masbate City; Daet, Camarines Sur, and Catarman, Northern Samar, a GMA TV report said last night.
A similar heat index is likewise projected in Roxas City, Capiz on Thursday.