00:00Sir, can I stand and raise your right hand?
00:04You, Ronell Benaventura, do swear that the evidence you shall give in the case now offending between the Philippines and
00:10Vice President Cyrus Zirman Mando Torte shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help
00:16you, God.
00:16Yes, thanks very much.
00:30Nang naaayon sa batas at hindi dapat ibalandra ang mga ito sa publiko, sa pamamaraang mali, malisyoso, at ang tanging
00:40layon ay pamumulitika lamang.
00:43Ano naman po ang naging resulta sa inyong 2015 bar examinations?
00:49Nakapasa naman po. I placed 10 po sa bar po noong 2015 bar po.
00:55Kung pwede ko pong maitanong, Attorney Benaventura, ano po ang inyong naging bar rating kung inyong po itong naalala?
01:0485.75 po, Your Honor.
01:0685.7. Eh, sorry, Your Honor, naalala ko lang po.
01:10That's 5.7 percentage points more than yung 80 percentage points na nakuha nung kakilala namin ni Attorney Benluan.
01:19Anyway, it appears that the prosecution is not being entirely truthful with this Honorable Court
01:26because they're flashing a document, Your Honor, but it seems that the document, comparing it from the original, was cropped.
01:33Because in the original document, prior to the date, Your Honor, there is an annotation that states strictly confidential.
01:42And the document here, as appearing in the screen now, as flashed on the screen, does not contain that portion,
01:49Your Honor.
01:49Just to manifest for the record.
01:51Base po sa inyong summary table 5 at sa mga CTRs at STRs ng Kale 88,
01:57magkano po ang kabuhang halaga ng mga remittance mula sa China na natanggap ng Kale 88?
02:03Aggregate amount po na nakalagay sa letter C, aggregate PHP na may subtotal A.
02:10Ang naka-indigate po sa aming tabular summary po ay 319,326,770.41 po, Your Honor.
02:22When you appeared before the House Committee on Justice on April 22, 2026,
02:30did you obtain a prior written authority of the three council members?
02:38Your Honor, the authority granted was pursuant to our information exchange guidelines,
02:44which the council already approved in 2022.
02:48So that is an authority granted.
02:52There's a provision there which authorizes me to appear
02:56whenever we're subject of subpoena with competent authorities, Your Honor.
03:01We all saw the amount of papers that this witness had to sift through.
03:08And there was even a length of time when he had to pause
03:13because he had to look at the documents, Your Honor.
03:16We're not trying to delay this proceeding.
03:19On the other hand, are we also rushing this hearing?
03:25Because we're not asking for a lot of time, Your Honor.
03:28We started cross-examining this witness at past 5 p.m.
03:47We had to skip past 6 p.m.
