{"id":20877,"date":"2014-08-06T08:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20877"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:49:13","slug":"probe-on-maguindanao-massacre-case-bribe-try-up-to-de-lima-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/06\/probe-on-maguindanao-massacre-case-bribe-try-up-to-de-lima-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe on Maguindanao massacre case bribe try up to De Lima &#8211; Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10021\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/de-lima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/de-lima-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. Photo courtesy of De Lima's Facebook page.\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/de-lima-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/de-lima.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. Photo courtesy of De Lima&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The decision on whether or not to conduct a probe on the alleged bribe try in the Maguindanao massacre case , is all up to the justice secretary, according to Malacanang on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters on Tuesday that Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III, lawyer of\u00a0Maguindanao Gov. Esmail Mangudadatu, are the ones in position to investigate the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The allegations on the bribe try came after <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0lawyer Nena Santos<\/span>\u00a0said that prosecutors handling the case have received a P300-million bribe to weaken the prosecution against the accused.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima, talking to reporters, urged Santos to prove her accusations that Baraan received money from the\u00a0members of the Ampatuan clan.<\/p>\n<p>Believing that Santos&#8217; claim is baseless, she urged Santos to show her the evidence and prove her accusations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSimply because she rejected the P300-million alleged bribe offer of the Ampatuan, it already went to public prosecutors?\u201d she asked. \u201cThat is simply preposterous. That\u2019s a big jump in conclusion,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cShow me the evidence,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy would she wait for my exit here in DOJ? Go ahead.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lacierda, meanwhile, reiterated that the prosecution should be the ones discussing and resolving the problem among themselves.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMaybe, before suggesting anything, Secretary Leila de Lima is in a better position to discuss amongst themselves whatever differences they (have) and to look into those allegations of corruption,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The decision on whether or not to conduct a probe on the alleged bribe try in the Maguindanao &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[6175,4060,4154],"class_list":["post-20877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-de-lima","tag-maguindanao-massacre","tag-palace","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}