{"id":159998,"date":"2018-04-15T01:45:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T05:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159998"},"modified":"2018-04-15T01:45:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T05:45:33","slug":"sereno-retrieves-11-of-21-missing-salns-as-up-professor-spox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/15\/sereno-retrieves-11-of-21-missing-salns-as-up-professor-spox\/","title":{"rendered":"Sereno retrieves 11 of 21 missing SALNs as UP professor: spox"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Deinla<\/a>
Deinla said the fact that Calida himself confirmed that he had obtained the SALNs himself proved that the Chief Justice had indeed filed her UP SALNs contrary to solicitor general\u2019s claim in his petition. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno had already retrieved more than half of her missing Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, which she had filed as law professor at the University of the Philippines from 1986 to 2006.<\/p>\n

This was bared Saturday by lawyer Josalee Deinla, one of Sereno\u2019s spokespersons, adding that at least 11 of the 21 missing SALNs have been found by the Chief Justice prior to Solicitor General Jose Calida\u2019s submission of the top magistrate\u2019s SALNs to the Supreme Court on March 27, 2018.<\/p>\n

Deinla said the fact that Calida himself confirmed that he had obtained the SALNs himself proved that the Chief Justice had indeed filed her UP SALNs contrary to solicitor general\u2019s claim in his petition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSolGen Calida\u2019s quo warranto petition was based on his claim that since CJ Sereno did not file UP SALNs and that she failed to meet the constitutional requirement of proven integrity when she failed to submit her UP SALNs to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC),\u201d Deinla said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Deinla cited Paragraph 23 of the petition where Calida \u201ccategorically and without qualification\u201d stated that the Chief Justice \u201conly filed SALNs for the years 1998, 2002 and 2006 during her tenure as law professor at the UP College of Law from 1986 up to 2006.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calida, however, submitted in his reply to the SC on March 27, 2018 Sereno\u2019s eight SALNs for the years 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997, she said.<\/p>\n

Deinla added that Calida\u2019s admission that he had also retrieved Sereno\u2019s UP SALNs and submitted the same to the high tribunal in his reply should result in the immediate dismissal of the petition,.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis submission is an admission that his petition is baseless. The recovery of most of the SALNs destroys the SolGen\u2019s main argument that the Chief Justice should be removed from office on ground that she failed to file her SALNs and submit them to the JBC,\u201d Deinla said.<\/p>\n

She said Calida could not claim that he was the one who retrieved the SALNs since even before the SolGen submitted it to the SC, the Chief Justice had already informed the high tribunal in her comment filed on March 19 that she had already recovered most of the missing SALNs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis proves that the Chief Justice had found the missing SALNs even before the SolGen submitted them to the Supreme Court on March 27, 2018,\u201d Deinla said.<\/p>\n

The Chief Justice, Deinla said, intends to present the recovered UP SALNs to the Senate impeachment court, without prejudice to her legal defenses in light of the fact that her alleged failure to file SALNs before she joined the SC is not within the scope of the impeachment complaint or the grounds for impeachment provided in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Calida said the SALN retrieved by the camp of Sereno were the same documents his office had obtained and submitted to the Supreme Court, calling the top magistrate\u2019s move as an attempt to \u201cmislead the Filipino people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Sereno again attempted to mislead the Filipino people. Sereno claims to have recovered eight of her SALNs. Except for her 1989 SALN, assuming it is not a fabrication, those Sereno supposedly \u2018recovered\u2019 were the same ones submitted by the OSG (Office of the Solicitor General) to the Supreme Court,\u201d Calida posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n

He also posted the reply letter of UP Human Resources Development Office director Angelo Escoto, noting that UP provided the OSG copies of Sereno\u2019s SALN for the years 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994,1995, 1996, 1997 and 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Petitioner, the Republic has the \u2018burden of proof\u2019 to establish that Sereno failed to file her SALNs. This certification from the UP HRDO is proof enough,\u201d the OSG chief noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe burden now shifts to Sereno, who must offer evidence that she indeed filed her SALNs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Calida filed before the SC a quo warranto petition which sought to void her 2012 appointment as chief justice for failing to comply with the requirements of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) by filing her SALNs.<\/p>\n

Sereno faced her probing colleagues at the Supreme Court in Baguio City on Tuesday, a first in Philippine history.<\/p>\n

The SC held oral arguments on the quo warranto petition filed by the OSG against Sereno, seeking to nullify her appointment over her alleged non-filing of her SALN.<\/p>\n

Sereno was even required by her colleagues to answer their questions under oath.<\/p>\n

The submission of the SALN was a JBC requirement when she applied for the associate justice post in 2010 and for the chief justice post in 2012, Calida said.<\/p>\n

While admitting that Sereno is an impeachable officer, Calida said she may still be removed from office through a quo warranto petition.<\/p>\n

He said the offenses that may warrant the filing of a quo warranto petition are different from the offenses that would warrant the filing of an impeachment complaint.<\/p>\n

Sereno, who is presently on indefinite leave from office, has sought the dismissal of the case, arguing that the SC has no jurisdiction and authority to remove her from office because the 1987 Constitution provides that she could only be ousted by impeachment in Congress as an impeachable official.<\/p>\n

Citing Section 2, Article XI of the Constitution, she said impeachable officials — including herself and all justices of the SC — may only be removed from office upon impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court.<\/p>\n

Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio ended the oral arguments by directing both parties to submit their respective memoranda and pertinent documents on or before April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno had already retrieved more than half of her missing Statements of Assets, Liabilities and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[49657,11555,15694,3295],"class_list":["post-159998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-josalee-deinla","tag-jose-calida","tag-maria-lourdes-sereno","tag-university-of-the-philippines","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}