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Monday, February 07, 2005
Ilonggo faces raps for E-Commerce Law violation
By Jay Dooma Balnig
ILOILO CITY -- An Ilonggo computer expert is the first to be charged for violation of the Electronic Commerce Law since its passage by Congress in 2000.
A court in Manila issued a warrant of arrest last January 24 for JJ Maria Giner, a Fishery graduate of the University of the Philippines-Visayas in Miag-ao, as a consequence of the charges last.
Giner, who works as UP Visayas's webmaster and programmer, immediately posted bail of P25,000 in Iloilo City on January 27, three days after a warrant was issued for his arrest, said his lawyer Rodolfo Viajar Jr. in a press conference late Friday.
He is charged with violating Section 33a of the e-Commerce Law, based on the complaint of Undersecretary Abraham Puruganan, head of the Task Force for Security of Critical Infrastructure.
The UP graduate, a native of Jaro, Iloilo City, is tagged as being behind the hacking and defacing of the Philippine government portal gov.ph, said government prosecutor Geronimo Sy.
Judge Antonio Eugenio of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Manila issued the warrant for Giner's arrest.
Puruganan's task force said the computer issued to Giner by the university administration was the unit allegedly used in hacking government websites.
Secretary Puruganan filed the case before the Manila Prosecutor's Office in behalf of several government websites hacked between April and May 2004.
Viajar, in an interview, said government prosecutors are taking an interest in the case, considering that Giner is the first Filipino charged for violating the E-Commerce Law.
The lawyer denied Giner went into hiding after a warrant for his arrest came out January 24, dismissing claims by Superintendent Gilbert Sosa of the Anti-Transnational Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
(February 7, 2005 issue)
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