{"id":69593,"date":"2016-01-27T05:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69593"},"modified":"2016-01-27T05:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:42:23","slug":"marcos-admits-speaking-to-opapp-chief-deles-in-audio-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/27\/marcos-admits-speaking-to-opapp-chief-deles-in-audio-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos admits speaking to OPAPP chief Deles in audio recording"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA\u2014Senator Ferdinand \u2018Bongbong\u2019 Marcos Jr. on Tuesday admitted that the lawmaker and government official conversing about the Mamasapano clash in an audio recording were him and Secretary Teresita Deles of the Office of Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP).<\/p>\n

\u201dIt\u2019s really our conversation,\u201d he told the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody told them to do it. I did not allow them to do it nor asked permission to do it. So, it was unauthorized,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The audio recording is in possession of retired police Chief Superintendent Diosdado Valeroso who will present the recording before the senate committee probing the Mamasapano clash.<\/p>\n

Valerosa claimed that the recording was sent to him via email by an individual who don\u2019t wish to be named.<\/p>\n

Even Sen. Marcos doesn\u2019t know who recorded him and Veles when they conversed at his office in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were like, I think, 50 people. We don\u2019t know who did the recording because our office that the time was open, everybody comes and go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Legal action<\/strong><\/p>\n

OPAPP is considering taking legal actions against individuals who have the \u201cillegal\u201d audio recording in their possession.<\/p>\n

“Anyone who recorded the audio without expressed permission from those identified in it can be prosecuted for violation of the said law,” OPAPP legal consultant Attorney Jomer Aquino said.<\/p>\n

Cover up<\/strong><\/p>\n

Valeroso told the media that the audio recording showed \u201ca deliberate attempt to cover up the Mamasapano massacre\u201d and its investigation.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, both Sen. Marcos and Secretary Deles denied this allegation.<\/p>\n

“The claim doing the rounds in social media that OPAPP Secretary Teresita \u201cGing\u201d Deles saw me in my office on January 26, the day after the Mamasapano incident, to \u201cwhitewash\u201d the investigation is definitely not true. There could not even be any suggestion of a \u201cwhitewash\u201d because there was no investigation yet at that time,\u201d Sen. Marcos said.<\/p>\n

“I have said this before and I will say this again, those allegations of whitewash and cover-ups are false. It was a disservice then, as it is a disservice now to our people to mislead, confuse and lie to them,” Secretary Deles said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who wanted again to hit the administration through the peace process, released and shared under false headline the recording of my meeting with Senator Marcos, making it appear that the conversation was about a whitewash and a cover-up instead of an innocent conversation about the incident in which it was clear that we were both trying to make sense of what happened, given the details available at that time, and concluded with an agreement to wait for more information,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The senator stressed that during his meeting with Deles, the OPAPP secretary only explained to him what happened on the grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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