Cassandra Li Ong’s human trafficking PI reset to Nov. 18 —lawyer

The preliminary hearing on the qualified human trafficking complaint filed against Cassandra Li Ong, the authorized representative of the Lucky South 99 POGO firm, and others was reset to November 18, her lawyer said Tuesday.  

Ong personally attended the preliminary investigation at the Department of Justice.

According to Atty. Raphael Andrada, Ong’s legal counsel, the complainants were supposed to submit their supplemental complaint affidavit, which named former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque as a respondent, but their witnesses were not present.

“Unfortunately, today, the witnesses in the complaint, the supplemental complaint of the PNP-CIDG were not present. So instead, the honorable panel of prosecutors reset the submission of the supplemental complaint to November 18,” he said in an ambush interview.

Andrada said they will not file their counter-affidavit yet as they still have to study the supplemental complaint affidavit.

Ong, Roque, and several others are facing a complaint for alleged violation of Republic Act 9208, as amended by RA 10364, as further amended by RA 11862.

Meanwhile, Andrada said that Ong is being treated fairly at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City.

“It’s just about what you would expect under ordinary detention circumstances. But it’s still very— she is still being treated quite fairly there,” he said.—AOL, GMA Integrated News