Raps filed vs. Vhong Navarro's attackers

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed a complaint against those who mauled TV host-actor Vhong Navarro inside a condominium unit in the Bonifacio Global City last week.

Among the respondents in the complaint, which was filed with the Department of Justice, were Deniece Cornejo, the occupant of the condominium unit; her friend Cedric Lee, a businessman; and several others.

A report on “24 Oras” said among the charges leveled against the respondents was serious illegal detention, a non-bailable offense.

The report said Navarro executed his affidavit in his hospital bed as he was recuperating from the five-hour operation he underwent.

“The NBI asked Vhong to confirm his statement and because he could not see very clearly. The statement that was read to him... every statement was read to him to confirm it,” said Navarro's lawyer, Alma Mallonga, in the “24 Oras” report.

Navarro has been accused of attempted rape by Cornejo — an accusation he denied.



Also named respondents in the complaint were Lee's sister Bernice; his friend Zimmer Raz, reportedly a martial arts expert; and two John Does.

Aside from serious illegal detention, the respondents were also accused of committing serious physical injury, grave threat, illegal arrest and coercion.

Mallonga, meanwhile, dismissed Lee's claim that other women who have allegedly been victimized by Navarro before have already contacted them.

“We expect that this is being done, you know, to disseminate to the public the other side of the story,” she said in the report. “But in the end, I am telling you, the truth is the truth. So 'yung mga sinasabi nila na nangyari, it never happened.” — KBK, GMA News