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THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday recommended to the Department of Justice (DOJ) the filing of inciting to sedition and grave threat charges against Vice President Sara Duterte.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The charges were in connection with the Vice President\u2019s remark that she hired someone to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and others if she dies.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Duterte last year said that she had arranged for President Marcos, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and House Speaker Martin Romualdez to be killed should she be assassinated.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NBI Director Jaime Santiago said sufficient evidence was found for the charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe have already filed it with the DOJ\u2026They will determine whether to conduct a preliminary investigation and whether to file the case in court,\u201d he said in a press briefing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile,when asked to comment on the possibility of charges being filed against her in court, the Vice President responded, \u201c As expected.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dutete earlier denied making the controversial \u201ckill\u201d remarks despite the viral video showing her doing so.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Vice President said that her remarks were taken out of context. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her kill threat was among those cited by civil society groups when they filed impeachment complaints against her.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Duterte was impeached by the House of Representatives last week on charges of “violation of the constitution, betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, and other high crimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A total of 240 or more than 80 percent of the 306-members of the House of Representatives voted in favor of the Vice President\u2019s impeachment.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday recommended to the Department of Justice (DOJ) the filing of inciting to sedition and grave threat charges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11782,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions\/11782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}