Aug. 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A total of 16 people, including several nuns, have been indicted for terrorist financing for allegedly providing funds to the Communist Party of the Philippines (PCF) guerrilla, the New People’s Army (NEP).
A judicial spokesman, Mico Clavano, explained that 55 charges have been filed for crimes classified in Section 8, Epigraph II of Law 10168 of the Republic, which contemplates life imprisonment and between 500,000 and one million pesos (between 8,800 and 17,600 euros). fine, reports Philippine television ABS-CBN.
The article provides these sanctions for “making available any property or funds or financial services or other related services to a person, organization, association or group of persons designated” as terrorists.
The Anti-Terrorism Council of the Philippines designated the PCF-NEP as a terrorist organization in December 2020. The case is being tried in the Iligan City Regional Court, which has ordered imprisonment without bail for the accused.
The charges are based on the declaration of two former members of the guerrilla. One of them participated in the economic management of the insurgent group and assured that 60 percent of the funds that came from abroad to the congregation of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, a congregation to which the accused nuns belong, were used to buy weapons and ammunition. for the guerrillas.
The bank accounts of the Philippine Rural Missionaries have been seized since February 11, 2020 by order of the Philippine Court of Appeals.
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