DOJ probing *** scandal as fiscal sues wife for violating 'anti-voyeurism' law
By: Fiona Nicolas, News5
December 13, 2012 11:53 AM
InterAksyon.com
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MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Justice will mount a formal investigation of a prosecutor whose wife obtained a video of him making love to another woman.
However, Prosecutor General Claro Arellano said the prosecutor has also filed a complaint against his wife for violating Republic Act 9995, or the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009, for taking the video from his cellphone as well as pictures of him and his alleged mistress, earlier identified as another government lawyer, from his laptop without his permission.
Arellano said the DOJ took over the case against the prosecutor after fiscals at the Quezon City Hall of Justice, where the wife filed her complaint, inhibited themselves because they know the respondent.
He added that the DOJ has talked to one of the parties in the *** video, who allegedly said the tryst took place before the husband became a prosecutor.
Arellano said the DOJ is studying the possibility of preventively suspending the prosecutor, who will also be facing criminal charges such as violating the Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act, coercion and slander, aside from the administrative case against him.
Arellano admitted that the scandal dealt a blow to the integrity of the law profession and the DOJ and assured that “there will be no whitewash. Hindi porke’t kasamahan naming, kukunsintihin namin (Just because he is one of us doesn’t mean we will tolerate him).”