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==[[Marinduque News]]==
==[[Marinduque News]]==
'''Solon seeks higher fine for crime of 'intriguing against honor''''
'''Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco seeks to increase fines against libel''''
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=804592
*Source: http://www.pnoynews.com/2012/05/rep-lord-allan-jay-velasco-seeks-to.html
*Monday, May 7, 2012
*Wednesday, May 9, 2012
:by FLORO L. MERCENE
:by pnoynews.com




A libel committed by means of writing or similar means, under Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code imposes a penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods or a fine ranging from 200 to 6,000 pesos, or both.


MANILA, Philippines - A person who will be convicted of committing the crime of "intriguing against honor" will only be asked to pay a fine of P200.
Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco (Lone District, Marinduque), author of House Bill 5835, said the fine components are still based on 1930 prices and is yet to be amended.


The very small fine prompted Marindueque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco to file House Bill 5830, which seeks to increase the fine of P200 to P16,000.
The bill seeks to amend Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code to reflect the adjusted fine components.


"With regard to the fine component, the amounts are still based on 1930 prices, the year the Revised Penal Code otherwise known as Act 3815 was enacted. The massive inflation and devaluation our currency has gone through renders the punitive fine component of the RPC negligible," Velasco said.
Velasco said under the bill, a libel committed by means of writing, printing, lithography, engraving, radio, phonograph, painting, theatrical exhibition, cinematographic exhibition, or any similar means shall be punished by prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods or a fine ranging from P16,000 to P480,000 or both, in addition to the civil action which may be brought by the offended party.


He said that in adjusting the fines accurately, the inflation rate should be computed from 1930 up to the present.
Velasco said the outdated monetary fines and penalties punishing crimes remain unchanged since Act 3815 also known as the Revised Penal Code was enacted way back in December 8, 1930.


"There is no data available for the Consumer Price Index earlier than 1955 in the Philippines and from 1986 to 1988. Moreover, there had been a total of eight rebasing of base years for the computation of inflation rates," said Velasco, a vice chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments.
"There is really a need to uphold the full force and teeth of our penal laws in order that punishment for offenses/crimes including the fine, imprisonment and civil disqualification components must be up to date," Velaso emphasized.
 
Velasco said the year 1955 will be used as the base year for the computation up to 2011, and disregarding the inflation rate in the years 1986 to 1988 making the derived inflation rate a conservative one.
 
The crimes of intriguing against honor include libel, oral defamation, slander by deed and incriminatory machinations such as incriminating a person by planting evidence and destroying a person's reputation by a scheme, plot, design, but not by direct spoken words.


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