Another Vote Buying Arrest Was Reported In Malabon City
ARRESTED – In Malabon City, a man was caught in the act by authorities violating the law against vote buying last Friday night, May 10, 2019.
For the forthcoming election, it seems like several candidates are making their last minute moves in gaining the upper hand. Numerous cases of vote buying was recorded just this week.
Recently, vote buying incidents were also reported in Iloilo City. Luckily, police officials are keeping tight guard of just and fair elections.
The violators were arrested.
Meanwhile, a 46 year old man identified as “Alyas Jim” was caught with 17 envelopes, each containing P300 cash and tickets for voters to pledge their support for a running candidate for the position of City Councilor.
According to the police, they also seized acknowledgement receipts from Alyas Jim, where they allegedly let the voter sign to guarantee their support for the competing candidate for councilor.
Other than that, he also had a list of individual voters’ names who they qualified as recipients for the money.
However, the Alyas Jim denied that the money was from him. He claimed that a lady in a car handed him the envelopes and asked him to distribute it to the persons on the list.
This is according to an article from Radyo Inquirer.
Malabon’s police authorities are now looking for the lady suspect who gave Alyas Jim the money. They were also able to obtain the plate number of the suspect’s vehicle.
Alyas Jim is now detained with accordance to the provisions of the Omnibus Elections Code on illegal vote buying of the Philippines.
The decision will be passed on to the Comelec whether or not they will pursue the case against Alyas Jim.
That is all there is to it, at least for now. We’ll post updates as soon as we got them.