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Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, and Rodante Marcoleta, push through with their scheduled Blue Ribbon Committee hearing featuring 18 Marines and their legal counsel as resource persons at the Senate plenary hall in Pasay City on June 4, 2026. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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Kaxandra Salonga

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178116042611320260604-senate-cayetano-bloc-blue-ribbon-MT-2.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, and Rodante Marcoleta, push through with their scheduled Blue Ribbon Committee hearing featuring 18 Marines and their legal counsel as resource persons at the Senate plenary hall in Pasay City on June 4, 2026. <em>Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Lawyer Levi Baligod, the counsel of the 18 alleged ex-bodyguards and staff of former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co, dismissed Thursday the statement of acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian linking them to a supposed security threat at the Senate.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/10/-threat-to-senate-may-be-linked-to-zaldy-co-s-alleged-bagmen-gatchalian-1431">Senate on heightened security out of &#x27;abundance of caution&#x27;</a></div><p>“It’s funny. I don’t know why people of their stature would engage in such inane accusation that we are threatening the security of the Senate. How? Pagpasok mo pa lang sa Senate kakapkapan ka na,&quot; Baligod said.</p><p>&quot;Walang ganun. We are peaceful people, we do not know violence,&quot; he added.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/9/-serious-threat-to-senate-security-flagged-in-intel-report-sotto-1225">‘Serious’ threat to Senate security flagged in intel report — Sotto</a></div><p>Additional security has been deployed at the Senate and a work-from-home arrangement was implemented June 10 and 11 amid the supposed security threat.</p><p>Baligod appeared before the Office of the Ombudsman after it summoned the group for its fact-finding investigation.</p><p>He said one of the ex-bodyguards, Johnny Buduan, will be interviewed by investigators today.</p><div><em><br/></em></div><div><em>More details to follow.</em></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/62mVMLp2Q-A?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Lawyer Levi Baligod dismissed the statement of acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian linking them to a supposed security threat at the Senate.</p>

Lawyer Levi Baligod dismissed the statement of acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian linking them to a supposed security threat at the Senate.

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'We are peaceful people': Camp of 'ex-Co bodyguards' denies link to Senate 'threat'

Kaxandra Salonga,

ABS-CBN News

Published June 11, 2026 02:50 PM PHT

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