Mylah Roque, wife of former Palace spokesman Harry Roque, has asked the Supreme Court to scrap the House of Representatives quad committee’s contempt and arrest orders against her.
Mylah filed the petition for certiorari and prohibition before the SC last Wednesday. She was ordered arrested by the quad comm in October.
The Quad Comm had summoned the Roque couple over their alleged links to illegal operations of POGOs.
The former Duterte spokesman was first cited for contempt and ordered arrested for not attending the hearings.
“Mrs. Roque beseeched the Supreme Court to exercise its power of judicial review on whether the Quad Comm acted in grave abuse of discretion… The members of the quad comm, according to Mrs. Roque have gravely exceeded their authority because of these actions,” Roque said in a statement.
Both Harry and Mylah are reportedly outside the Philippines. Mylah is said to be in Singapore for medical treatment while the former Palace spokesman’s last known location was Abu Dhabi where they both submitted affidavits at the Philippine embassy.
In her petition, Mylah said the quad comm’s arrest order threatened her “right to travel” and the contempt charge was “a violation of due process” since no subpoena was issued upon her first before she was cited.
She said her right to privacy was being threatened as the members of quad comm are “probing her medical condition, which is irrelevant to the inquiries in aid of legislation.”
A former trustee of the Pag-IBIG Fund, Mylah said 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.”
