DAVAO CITY – The Office of the City Prosecutor in Davao City found probable cause against Walden Bello for two counts of cyber libel over his post on social media accusing former city information officer Jefry Tupas to be involved in illegal drugs during a beach party that was raided by authorities on November 6, 2021.
In a seven-page resolution dated June 9 but released to media on June 14, the OCP found “defamatory” Bello’s statement, delivered during a live interview and later posted on his verified Facebook account last March 1, 2022, alleging that Tupas and her friends were “snorting P1.5 million worth of drugs” and describing him as a “drug dealer.”
It said that the online content “would show that the respondent was imputing to the listeners or the attendees of the virtual forum that he was certain of his allegations against herein complainant as a drug dealer” but added that these imputations were incorrect based on the statements of the complainant’s witnesses.
He said that his Facebook post was a call-out to vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte for boycotting the CNN Debates, and not meant to target Tupas whose name was only included in the post “in a matter-of-factly tone” based on “established facts and were posed in such a way as asking for questions.”Bello’s post that led to his indictment read in part: “Mayor Duterte’s Press Information Officer, Jefry Tupas, was nabbed at a beach party where she and her friends were snorting 1.
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