Senator Risa Hontiveros files a cyber libel complaint with the National Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday, July 2, over a viral video involving Senate witness Michael Maurilio.
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00:00Senator Risa Ontiveros files a cyber libel complaint with the National Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday, July 2, over a viral video involving Senate witness Michael Maurilio.
00:11In the June 2025 video, Maurilio claimed that Ontiveros paid him 1 million pesos to lie under oath during the Senate probe into preacher Apolo Quiboloi's alleged abuses.
00:21Ontiveros led the Senate investigation.
00:23Maurilio had testified in 2024 that a senior male leader of Quiboloi's Kingdom of Jesus Christ, or KOJC, sexually assaulted him and that Quiboloi knew about it.
00:32The senator denies bribing Maurilio and called his claims disinformation.
00:36She also asked the NBI to identify and charge those behind the video.
00:40Ontiveros says before the video came out, Maurilio contacted her team, saying he had been kidnapped and was being held at a KOJC property in Davao City.
