MANILA, Philippines – The *** video scandal involving a fiscal and a lady lawyer took a new twist Tuesday after the counsel for Prosecutor Philip dela Rosa categorically denied, for the first time, that his client was the man in the video, even as his alleged lover’s lawyer declined to make a similar denial.
“It’s not him,” Atty. Modesto Ticman Jr. said as the fiscal, his alleged lover and his wife, Dr. Aimee dela Rosa, were summoned to the Department of Justice. Asked why he [dela Rosa] has not categorically denied he’s the man in the video seen in a *** act with a woman, Ticman replied, on his client’s behalf: “I’m denying it now.”
Atty. Soledad Mawis, lawyer for Jihan Jacob, whom Mrs. Dela Rosa tagged as the one in the video with her husband, refused, however, to make such a categorical denial. Mawis said, “Nasa korte na po [It’s in the courts now], so we respect the terms of confidentiality that all parties agreed upon.”...............