Talks swirl: Bolante deported very soon
JOCELYN "Joc Joc" Bolante, tagged as the mastermind in the P728 million fertilizer fund scandal in 2004, will be deported anytime soon, lawyer Harry Roque said yesterday.
But he did not say where he got the information.
Bolante is detained at the Kenosha County Detention Center in Wisconsin.
Roque admitted he does not know the exact date of the deportation and said it is up to the Department of Homeland Security to make the announcement.
Roque said he has received text messages that Bolante’s family has arrived but it has yet to be confirmed.
He said they will remain vigilant for Bolante’s possible arrival.
"The Arroyo government wants to hide the truth from the Filipino people once Joc Joc gets back and we could not allow that," Roque said.
The United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit has denied the petition for review of Bolante over his asylum claim saying Bolante’s fear of persecution was objectively unreasonable.
Sen. Mar Roxas pressed the Senate to convene itself into a Committee of the Whole for the sole purpose of hearing the impending testimony of Bolante.
"We owe it not only to the farmer-beneficiaries whose names were used to get hold of the fertilizer funds, but to the entire country to give closure to this issue by ensuring that Mr.. Bolante is given the chance to testify in consideration of the people’s right to be informed of matters of public concern," Roxas said in Senate Resolution 702.
He said the fertilizer scam could "never be fully closed without the testimony of its brains and implementor, Joc Joc Bolante."
He said the government should be open to the public on the deportation of Joc Joc Bolante and there should be no hidden plans of keeping him from facing the courts.
Sen. Edgardo Angara, chair of the agriculture and food panel, had thumbed down the idea of re-investigating the fertilizer fund scam saying that the panel, under then Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. had thoroughly carried out and concluded the probe and even recommended the prosecution of Bolante for possible plunder case. – Ashzel Hachero and Dennis Gadil
But he did not say where he got the information.
Bolante is detained at the Kenosha County Detention Center in Wisconsin.
Roque admitted he does not know the exact date of the deportation and said it is up to the Department of Homeland Security to make the announcement.
Roque said he has received text messages that Bolante’s family has arrived but it has yet to be confirmed.
He said they will remain vigilant for Bolante’s possible arrival.
"The Arroyo government wants to hide the truth from the Filipino people once Joc Joc gets back and we could not allow that," Roque said.
The United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit has denied the petition for review of Bolante over his asylum claim saying Bolante’s fear of persecution was objectively unreasonable.
Sen. Mar Roxas pressed the Senate to convene itself into a Committee of the Whole for the sole purpose of hearing the impending testimony of Bolante.
"We owe it not only to the farmer-beneficiaries whose names were used to get hold of the fertilizer funds, but to the entire country to give closure to this issue by ensuring that Mr.. Bolante is given the chance to testify in consideration of the people’s right to be informed of matters of public concern," Roxas said in Senate Resolution 702.
He said the fertilizer scam could "never be fully closed without the testimony of its brains and implementor, Joc Joc Bolante."
He said the government should be open to the public on the deportation of Joc Joc Bolante and there should be no hidden plans of keeping him from facing the courts.
Sen. Edgardo Angara, chair of the agriculture and food panel, had thumbed down the idea of re-investigating the fertilizer fund scam saying that the panel, under then Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. had thoroughly carried out and concluded the probe and even recommended the prosecution of Bolante for possible plunder case. – Ashzel Hachero and Dennis Gadil
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