THE PHILIPPINE CENTER for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is proud to announce the airing tonight of a two-segment documentary on the extent and state of the Ampatuan clan’s real property assets.
Titled Lipat-Bahay, the documentary will be shown from 10 to 10:30 p.m. tonight, November 24, 2012, on GMANewsTV Channel 11 (on free TV) and Channel 24 (for cable subscribers).
The documentary was written, produced, and hosted by PCIJ Multimedia Director Ed Lingao, who has won a slew of awards for his outstanding work portfolio as a journalist, and for his dedicated coverage of Mindanao and conflict-torn areas in the country and overseas.
This is the latest edition of PCIJ’s documentaries on the Maguindanao massacre and other media murders in the Philippines that Lingao has produced for the PCIJ in the last three years.
The documentary that will air tonight on GMANewsTV builds on the PCIJ’s two-part special report also authored by Lingao, on the extent of the real properties of the Ampatuan clan. The patriarch and scions of the clan stand accused as masterminds of the massacre of 58 people, including 32 journalists, in 2009.
As well, the documentary exposes the sale of at least 8 pieces of real property by Andal Ampatuan Jr to one of his young lawyers. Legal experts have raised ethical and legal questions about the sale.
The Ampatuan estate remains under a court freeze order on account of a civil-forfeiture case that the Anti-Money Laundering Council filed in June 2011 initially before the Court of Appeals, and is now pending before a Manila trial court.
