The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday, Nov. 16, said it will transfer actor and television host Ferdinand “Vhong” H. Navarro from its detention facility to a jail in Taguig City.
“On 14 November 2022, the National Bureau of Investigation-Security Management Section (NBI-SMS) had received the Order from Regional Trial Court Branch 69, to commit Ferdinand ‘Vhong’ H. Navarro to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Taguig City Jail – Male Dormitory, Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City,” the NBI said in a statement.
“Navarro will have to undergo the mandatory Medical Examination, including RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) test, in compliance with the health protocol requirements prior to his transfer to BJMP, Taguig City,” it said.
Navarro has been held at the NBI’s detention facility at its headquarters in Manila since turning himself in last Sept. 19 on a non-bailable charge of rape.
He has a rape case before the Taguig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 69 and acts lasciviousness case at Taguig Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) Branch 116.
The cases arose from the complaints of model Deniece Millinete Cornejo who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2014.
Cornejo’s complaints had been dismissed both by the prosecutor’s office and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
However, on Cornejo’s petition, the DOJ’s resolution was reversed by the Court of Appeals which ordered the filing of the criminal charges against Navarro.
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