MANILA – Due to insufficient documents, the Department of Justice rejected the case the National Capital Region Police Office filed against blogger Andrew Olivar for the bomb scare he posted on social media.
The department told them to re-file the case once the documents are complete, according to Senior Inspector Myrna Diploma, officer-in-charge of the NCRPO’s Public Information Office.
“We need to coordinate with the Anti-Cybercrime Unit to complete our evidence,” Diploma told reporters.
A case involving cybercrime might be dismissed without a certification from the unit, said Diploma.
Olivar was accused of violating Section 1 of Presidential Decree 1727, which prohibits the malicious dissemination of false information or the willful making of any threat concerning bombs and explosives, in relation to Republic Act 10175, or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
In a Facebook post last Friday, Olivar – a pro-Duterte blogger – warned protesters planning to gather on EDSA of a possible bombing similar to the blast in Plaza Miranda in 1971.
The following day Olivar, along with Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux “Mocha” Uson, appeared in a news conference at the NCRPO headquarters in Taguig City and apologized.
Earlier Olivar has drawn flak for mimicking sign language and making sounds in an apparent imitation of the mute, with Uson laughing in the background, in a video that went viral. (PNA)
