{"id":49143,"date":"2015-05-12T23:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49143"},"modified":"2015-05-12T23:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:58:51","slug":"investigator-unable-to-testify-in-estradas-case-blocked-by-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/12\/investigator-unable-to-testify-in-estradas-case-blocked-by-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigator unable to testify in Estrada\u2019s case, blocked by lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11471\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11471\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Jinggoy Estrada (Facebook photo)\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jinggoy Estrada (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 During Senator Jinggoy Estrada\u2019s P184-million plunder case hearing, the prosecution was unable to present in court the Anti-Money Laundering Council\u2019s (AMLC) findings as they were successfully objected and blocked by the defense lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>AMLC investigator Orlando Negradas Jr. was then unable to testify regarding Senator Estrada and his family\u2019s bank transactions. Negradas was among the three-man team tasked to look into the bank accounts of the senator and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada\u2019s lawyers Sabino Acut Jr. and Paul Mar Arias asserted that the information Negradas wanted to present was already included in an earlier AMLC report. Thus, there was no need for a new testimony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe object to the materiality of (Negradas\u2019 testimony). During the hearing on March 23, he already admitted that the AMLC investigation did not show the underlying transactions in the movement of funds (in Estrada\u2019s bank accounts),\u201d Acut said during the bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Sustaining the defense lawyers\u2019 objections, Associate Justice Roland Jurado ordered the prosecution to present findings not included in the AMLC report.<\/p>\n<p>With the prosecution unable to present any new information, the court then terminated Negradas\u2019 testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada was satisfied with the outcome of the hearing and his lawyers\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see from the outcome of the bail hearing, even the court has noticed that the delay is caused by the prosecution and not by me or my lawyers,\u201d he told reporters after the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada is currently detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame while his case is still being heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 During Senator Jinggoy Estrada\u2019s P184-million plunder case hearing, the prosecution was unable to present in court the Anti-Money &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483,4377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","category-public-probe","mauthors-jane-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49143","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=49143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}