CEBU CITY, Philippines —Dionisio Cañete, a former lawyer and arnis grandmaster, has been arrested in his home along Eagle Street, Santo Niño Village, in Barangay Banilad, Mandaue City in the
Cañete, who asked and was granted by Supreme Court in 2017 to strip him of his attorney-at-law title claiming he could not stomach the alleged corruption in the legal profession, was served a warrant of arrest at 10 a.m. by a joint team of police officers.The warrant of arrest was issued by Judge Ramon Daomilas Jr., Regional Trial Court Branch 12 Cebu City, on November 22, 2019.
According to Police Colonel Marlo Castillo, director of Regional Anti-Cybercrime Office in Central Visayas , two counts of cyber libel against Cañete were filed by private individuals. He said it was a violation of section 4 of Republic Act 10175 or computer-related offences of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.Castillo did not divulge further information about the arrest of Cañete, but Cañete himself admitted that it might be related to the Facebook post he posted around 2016 where he allegedly named a few prosecutors who were allegedly involved in corruption.Back in 2017, the Supreme Court granted Cañete’s request to be removed from the Rolls of Attorneys.
He claimed there were cases he filed against a private company which was allegedly unreasonably dismissed which led to the post that he made and later prompted him to decide to quit as a lawyer. In his interview with the media at the Cebu Provincial Police Office detention facility in Sitio Sudlon, Barangay Lahug, Cebu City, Cañete said he would not post bail as he would want to show where this case would lead and what the government would do about it./dbsLapu team shuts down house operating as resto, lodging house, clinic in Maribago subdivisionThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews.
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