A House leader wants to revive the congressional investigation into the alleged violations of the laws committed by shuttered television and radio giant ABS-CBN Corporation.
Cavite 4th district Representative Elpidio Barzaga Jr. vice chairman of the House Committee on Legislative Franchises, cited the need to revisit the issues raised against ABS-CBN during the investigation conducted by the previous 18th Congress.
“These legal and constitutional issues include the possible violations committed by ABS-CBN on the constitutional limits on foreign ownership, its reported violations of labor and tax laws and other violations of its previous franchise. We have to find out if ABS-CBN has been following the law or continuing to violate or circumvent it,” Barzaga said in a statement.
Barzaga realled that ABS-CBN had initially attempted to merge with another local network, TV-5, in a bid to ride on the legislative franchise granted to the latter. The merger was dropped when several lawmakers revealed that they planned to investigate the deal. While Barzaga said he sees no possible violation of this agreement at this time, “We do not know if there are other deals that ABS-CBN has entered into which need to be reviewed to find out if they are violating the law.”
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