Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Tuesday expressed his disappointment to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) over their 2022 report sent to Congress which showed there was no acquittal of criminal cases filed against Filipinos abroad.
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Tuesday expressed his disappointment to the Department of Foreign Affairs over its 2022 report sent to Congress showing that no Filipino facing criminal cases abroad were acquitted.
Villanueva backed Tulfo's query and asked the DFA to clarify if the zero acquittal means these were convictions from the courts. Tulfo asked De Vega to provide data on the acquitted cases in the last six months, but the DFA official said he cannot recall the figures."I was not the undersecretary then. We don't get a lot of acquittals. That's the fact. We don't get a lot of acquittals. Maximum, maybe less than a dozen a year," he said.
Tulfo also asked the DFA if they are sending capable defense lawyers to assist the Filipinos who are facing charges abroad. In ending the discussion, Tulfo reminded the DFA to provide legal assistance to all Filipinos who are charged in other countries as this is part of their mandate.
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