DOJ asked to summon Kris, Joey, Lolit for sex video probe

MANILA, Philippines – Sexy actress Katrina Halili wants three showbiz talk show hosts and two journalists to testify before the investigation of the Department of Justice on her complaint involving the controversial video showing her in an explicit sexual act with cosmetic surgeon Hayden Kho Jr.

In her reply to the counter-affidavits filed by Kho and four other respondents she named as accomplices, Halili asked the DOJ panel to summon talk show hosts Kris Aquino, Joey de Leon and Lolit Solis, and journalists Jay Ruiz and Jo Ann Maglipon to a clarificatory hearing set on July 14. Halili said those five could attest to her allegation that celebrity surgeon Vicki Belo, Engr. Eric Johnston Chua, Dr. Mark Herbert “Bistek” Rosario and girlfriend Princess Velasco should be held liable as accessories in the spread of the sex video in the Internet.

Exlusive interviews

She said Aquino and Ruiz, both from ABS-CBN, had exclusive interviews with Chua where the latter had claimed that it was Belo who had the DVD with the sex videos of Kho, which he copied from the computers. According to Halili, De Leon and Solis should also be summoned to the hearing to clarify an interview between the two aired over a GMA talk show where the latter supposedly admitted that she watched the sex videos with Belo.

This interview would disprove the claim of Belo in her counter-affidavit that she had destroyed the DVD with the videos after watching them on Dec. 12 last year. “If Ms. Solis was able to watch the sex videos after Dec. 12, 2008, as she even informed Mr. Joey de Leon of the sex videos that she was able to watch, then Belo did not actually destroy the DVD and the hard drive and respondent Dr. Belo is still in possession of the DVD and the hard drive,” argued the lawyers of Halili.

They said it was even possible that Solis and Belo watched the video together based on the interview, citing the close relationship between them.

Maglipon should also be questioned for her article on Yes magazine that broke the story on the sex video, added Halili’s camp. But a member of the investigating panel of the DOJ said they are unlikely to summon the five since it would be the responsibility of the parties in the case to convince the witnesses to appear before the preliminary probe.

In their counter-affidavits, Belo and three others have already denied the allegation of Halili that they were responsible for spreading the sex video.

Chua, Rosario and Velasco submitted their separate counter-affidavits on June 25 on charges of Halili that they should be held liable under RA 9262 (Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act) for allegedly uploading the sex video in the Internet. Belo’s answer to the complaint was submitted during the first hearing the other week, but was only released to reporters last week.