MANILA — Santa Rosa, Laguna Rep. Dan Fernandez on Monday refuted claims that Mylah Roque, wife of former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, has submitted documents that House panels holding hearings on issues related to the Duterte administration as she claims.

Fernandez, chair of the House Committee on Public Order and Safety, added he believes Roque had already left the country even before the panels directed her to submit documents, including medical certifications to show she cannot attend the inquiry.

“What we have received, actually, was a prescription coming from her personal doctor. We are asking for the [medical] certificate coming from the hospital,” he said.

He said lawmakers want to know details of medical operations that Roque went through, information that she characterized as "already very intrusive and violates my right to privacy."

Mrs. Roque, a former trustee of the Pag-IBIG Fund, said on October 11 that she has been “regularly complying” with the quad committee’s requests, but that “every time I submit a medical document, the good officials always, without fail, ask for something else and something new.”

But, Fernandez said, “what we were asking from her was not really complied with and that’s the reason why we cited her for contempt.”

He added she seemed to be “trying to find ways to really not attend” the inquiry, which is looking into potential links between former Duterte officials like her husband Harry and illegal activities at some Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators.

Mrs. Roque is being asked to shed light on her role in signing a lease agreement with Chinese nationals linked to the POGO complex in Bamban, Tarlac.

In her October 11 statement, Mrs. Roque said she is convinced “that there is nothing I could submit that [the quad comm] would have found sufficient.”

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WHAT DOCUMENTS DOES THE QUAD COMM WANT?

Fernandez said the quad comm has been asking Harry Roque for documents related to the sale of the family's home in Multinational Village in Parañaque as well as his Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth from his time in government service.

He said that the P60 million that the house was reportedly sold for seemed like a lot, since the "assessment value of the property was not so high." 

He added: "As a a matter of fact, we have to find out also if they are paying the right taxes for that."

Harry Roque had initially agreed to submit the documents to the House but has since sought protection from the Supreme Court to compel lawmakers to stop summoning him to the hearings.

"We’re not asking for so much and, as a a matter of fact, sila yung nag-offer nito for us to validate," Fernandez also said.

"As a matter of fact, I think she went out of the country prior to us asking her for those certifications coming from her," he added.

He said Mrs. Roque may have gone to Singapore or Malaysia.

The hearings have been a significant reversal of fortunes for Mr. Roque, a former House member and former Palace spokesperson who has been linked to POGOs, including a controversial hub in Porac, Pampanga that the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission and law enforcement raided earlier this year.

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Mr. Roque, who has been openly accused President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of drug use and who has called for failed attempts to force him to resign, styles himself a "political detainee" of the government after being detained overnight by the House for contempt and says the House hearings are only meant to discredit former President Rodrigo Duterte and his family.

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