The Manila Times
MANILA, Philippines —The wife of former lawmaker Mike Defensor denied allegations she was involved in the recent National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) operation involving a Pasay City establishment linked to her, describing it as a "political attack." In a statement late on Friday, Julie Defensor said she called the accusations against her and her daughter as baseless and malicious. "I am issuing this statement to categorically and forcefully deny the baseless, malicious allegations directed at me, my daughter, and our associated businesses," Defensor said. "Let me be absolutely clear regarding the recent NBI operation: we have absolutely no connection to the targeted establishment or its operations. Any attempt to link our family to the abhorrent acts allegedly committed there is a deliberate, dangerous, and desperate lie," she added. Defensor described the motive of the NBI operations as part of a smear campaign, saying that 1,000 employees' lives are at stake because of a "political attack." "This is a fabricated pretext designed to artificially manufacture a case, with the chilling goal of filing unwarranted, unbailable charges against me and my daughter," she said. In a statement on Friday, the NBI said they rescued 54 women in an "entrapment and rescue operation" against a suspected "trafficking-in-persons network operating" in the Chicago Nightclub and Bleu Hotel in Ortigas, Pasig City, allegedly owned by Defensor.
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