A Quezon City court on Monday, January 9, acquitted activists and members of progressive groups of perjury stemming from a complaint filed during the Duterte administration.
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The case stemmed from a perjury complaint filed by then-national security adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. in 2019 accusing RMP of falsely claiming to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission . A November 2019 resolution by Quezon City Senior Assistant City Prosecutor Nilo Peñaflor initially charged only RMP national coordinator Elenita Belardo, clearing the others, as she was the only one who identified herself as being with the group in question. the rest of the activists and nuns, even if they said they signed pleadings “in good faith.
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