Former Negros Oriental governor Pryde Henry Teves on Thursday mentioned he already submitted a waiver of confidentiality to the Department of Justice (DOJ) so investigators can verify his financial institution accounts and communications.
“I already signed my waiver of confidentiality. I submitted it to the local DOJ provincial office yesterday personally. Then I sent through LBC another straight to the office of Secretary Remulla,” he instructed GMA News’ Unang Balita.
Teves mentioned even the board of his agency, HDJ Agriventures, made a decision opening up the company’s financial institution accounts and communications to authorities.
Teves’ brother, suspended Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo Teves Jr., is being linked to the March 4 assassination of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo after arrested suspects named a sure “Cong Teves” because the one who allegedly ordered the killing.
Following a raid on HDJ Agriventures’ compound final week, authorities mentioned they discovered a map of Degamo’s home and photographs of his household from one of many arrested suspects.
The suspect, recognized as Nigel Electona, was a former police patrolman who was dismissed from service in 2017 as a result of alleged involvement in unlawful medication.
Henry Teves mentioned Electona is “the licensee of the security agency that I gave a contract to supply security services to the mill.”
According to Henry, he was stunned that an improvised explosive system (IED) was discovered within the compound, saying he’s “allergic” since he’s a bomb assault survivor.
“Biktima ako ng IED if you remember. I am a bombing survivor, the scars on my whole body reveal it. Seven people perished. I almost lost my life. I spent 35 days in coma. Seven months before I could walk again, and two and a half years before I was completely rehab with 22 operations no less kaya allergic ako dyan sa IED,” he mentioned.
“Ako [me] as president, had I known there was something like I would be the first one to have it either diffused or thrown away kasi delikado yan [because that is dangerous],” he added.
For Teves, the safety company ought to clarify the firearms and ammunition discovered within the compound.
Regarding the accusation in opposition to his older brother, Teves mentioned as a brother, he’ll at all times consider that Rep. Teves was not behind the killing of Degamo.
“Of course, as a brother, I will always like to believe na hindi, siyempre kapatid ako, kuya ko yan e. Hindi ko siya pinapapauwi dahil sa sinasabi ko na naiipit ako, pinapauwi ko siya aksi yung buong pamilya namin,” he mentioned.
(Of course, as a brother, I’ll at all times prefer to consider that he was not behind this.)
The former governor believes that the mastermind might be caught if authorities would simply comply with the cash, communication, and logistics trails.
“If thorough investigation would be done, getting all these connections between who and what and logistics and of course money, because operations like these need money. If that can be all traced, then definitely, the money trails, communication trails, and logistics trails will lead to who is behind this,” he mentioned.
Rep. Teves, who’s at present in a foreign country, has earlier denied involvement within the Degamo killing, saying he and his brother won’t profit from it. —KBK, GMA Integrated News
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