The Department of Justice  extended the deadline for business tycoon and former trade minister Roberto Ongpin to answer the earlier charges filed against him by a former employee for serious illegal detention, grave coercion and robbery. This was after he failed to attend yesterday’s preliminary investigation of the said cases. Ongpin’s counsel said that he was not able to attend the hearing and submit a counter-affidavit because he was abroad. If after this extension, Ongpin […]