“Our assessment that Ramil Madriaga would be the weakest link in the impeachment case was fully vindicated today,” Salvador Paolo Panelo Jr., legal counsel for Vice President Sara Duterte, said in a press statement.
As expected, Madriaga failed to address — because he could not address — the clear and convincing evidence presented by the Vice President in the perjury complaint that proves he is a fraud, Panelo said.
Further, he only presented evidence on irrelevant and immaterial matters, including those already debunked in the perjury complaint; with his core allegations of cash deliveries and instructions through phone calls on prepaid phones conveniently and fatally unverifiable, he said.
Far from strengthening the case, the Supplemental Affidavit only heightens the unbelievable and illogical nature of his claims, foremost of which is why former President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice President Sara Duterte would entrust sensitive security and intelligence matters to someone outside the military-police chain of command, and the reported leader of the “Madriaga Kidnapping for Ransom Group,” dubbed by the PNP as “one of the most dangerous criminal syndicates in recent history,” Panelo said.
The majority of the Filipino people will see through the lies and the performance, but “we relish the opportunity to dismantle his claims once again,” he said.*
