Retired Supreme Court Justice Serafin Cuevas on Monday said there was no truth to a Philippine Daily Inquirer story which reported him as saying that someone from Malacañang had tried to pressure him into quitting as chief lawyer for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Supposedly in exchange for withdrawing as chief defense counsel in the Corona case, criminal charges would be dropped against Magtanggol Gatdula, the sacked chief of the National Bureau of Investigation and, like Cuevas, a member of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC).
Interviewed on Radyo Inquirer, Cuevas also denied having said that he was subjected to some form of “harassment” by the Bureau of Internal Revenue over family-owned buildings in Quezon City, days after Corona’s impeachment trial began on January 16.
“That is not true. I did not say anything like that. I deny that,” Cuevas said in Filipino.
In the Inquirer story, the 83-year-old retired justice said he was approached by one of his former law students—whom he described as now one of Malacañang’s “rah-rah boys”—and asked to leave the defense team. In exchange for his withdrawal, the kidnapping case against Gatdula would be dropped.
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