Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
NATIONAL PROSECUTION SERVICE
OFFICE OF THE CITY PROSECUTOR
City of Surigao
BALTAZAR CAMPOREDONDO,
05-INV-13G-00241
et al.
Complainant,
-versus-

NPS DOCKET NO. XIII-

FOR:
GRAVE THREATS

ASTERIO ARPILLEDA,
VIRGILIO MAITEL,
Respondents.
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COUNTER-AFFIDAVIT OF ASTERIO ARPILLEDA
I, Asterio Arpilleda, 79 years old, Filipino citizen, married,
and a resident of Sitio Looc, Brgy. Luna, Surigao City, after being
sworn to in accordance with law, do hereby depose and state THAT:
1. I am one of the respondents in the above-captioned case
for GRAVE THREATS filed by Complainant Baltazar Camporedondo,
et al.
2. I vehemently and heartily deny the allegations of herein
complainants in their affidavit including the affidavit of their
witnesses.
3. That the said charges of GRAVE THREATS against us are all
FABRICATED LIES and DENIGRATORY, the truth being as follows:
a. I did not utter such words on February 28, 2013 at
6:30 in the morning because I was doing my daily exercise
and being an old man how can I utter words of killing and
fighting against the private complainant who is 50 years old
only.
b. On March 30, 2013 I never said those words because
starting March 27 to April 2, 2013 I was in Butuan City
attending the graduation as a Pastor of my grandson Ian Lyod
Arpilleda. March 30, 2013 is the graduation day of my
grandson Ian.

c. On April 1, 2013 is also the date of the marriage

ceremony of my grandson Ian Lyod Arpilleda. I also attended
the marriage ceremony. Attached here as Annex A is the
picture showing that I attended the marriage ceremony. Also
attached as Annex B is the letter of Emma A. Sindol
affirming that Asterio Arpilleda was in Butuan City with them
on March 26 to April 2, 2013. Marriage certificate and the
certification from the school the date of graduation will further
prove that indeed the marriage ceremony took place on April
1, 2013 and the Graduation took place on March 30, 2013. But
as of today it cannot be attached yet since Ian Lyod will come
to Surigao City only this September 8, 2013 and onwards.
4. Private complainants merely fabricated these funny and
outrageous stories so as to accuse me of the crime I did not
commit.
5. Our neighbors and concerned residence of our barangay
already made protest/petition against herein private complainants
in the year 2006 and 2013. Attached herein is the Copy of 2006
petition and 2013 petition as Annex C and Annex D which
contain signatures of concerned neighbors to prove that
CAMPOREDONDO
family are not good neighbors, liers,
underestimated human being, mapahitas-on, manyurak sa iyang
isig katawo, way respeto sa isig katawo. The May 24, 2013
petition was made because CAMPOREDONDO family accuses Mr.
Primer Villegas and to prove that the accusation of
CAMPOREDONDO family against Mr. Primer are not true.
5. Now in this case, I and Virgil Maitel, are the subject of their
untruthful and malicious allegations. We dont know who will be
their next target.
6. The Honorable Office may also consider the case of Baltazar
Camporedondo vs. NLRC, December 13, 2012 to somehow prove
that baltazar Camporedondo tried to defend himself of a case
against him but he failed and that Baltazar is not an ordinary man
but has the ability to fabricate stories.
7. Also is the case of People vs. Elizabeth Camporedondo,
Crim Case No. 8690 decided by the RTC Branch 30 of Surigao City
where the Court finds the accused Elizabeth Camporedondon guilty
of Grave Oral Defamation against Melchora Arpilleda. Attached here
as Annex E the decision of the said case.
8. That as the instant case is apparently on the stage of initial
or preliminary stage of the investigation before the Honorable
Office City Prosecutor, worth citing and reverberating at this point
are the cardinal parameters of the preliminary investigation as
emphasized by the High Tribunal in the following cases herein below
quoted as follows:

The object of preliminary investigation or an inquiry of

some kind, before an accused is placed upon trial, is to secure the
innocent against hasty, malicious, and oppressive prosecutions, and
to protect him from an open and public accusation of a crime, from
the trouble expenses and anxiety of a public trial, and also to
protect the state from useless and expensive prosecution. (People
vs. Figueroa, 27 SCRA 1240; Pp vs. Poculan, 167 SCRA 176).
20. Herein answering respondent respectfully submit that
taking into account the factual circumstances availing in the instant
case and the fabricated complaint-affidavit and self-serving
affidavits of the witnesses of the complainant, without naming the
alleged 3 policemen who assisted the private complainant nor get
their affidavits, as well as the doctrine reiterated by the Supreme
Court in the above quoted cases, herein answering respondents
ought to be secured from the instant hasty, malicious,
fabricated suit which are evidently baseless.
I am thus requesting the Honorable Office of the City
prosecutor for the DISMISSAL of the present Complaint of GRAVE
THREAT against us as the same is baseless and fabricated.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand on this
3rd day of September, 2013 at Surigao City, Philippines.
Asterio Arpellida
Affiant
SUBSCRIBE AND SWORN TO before me this 3rd day of
September, 2013, in Surigao City, Philippines. I hereby certify that I
have personally examined the affiant and that I am fully convinced
that he has voluntarily executed his counter-affidavit and that he
have read and understood the contents thereof.

COPY FURNISHED:
BALTAZAR CAMPOREDONDO,
ELIZABETH CAMPOEREDONDO,
ISIDORE BALZ CAMPOEREDONDO
Km 4, Brgy. Luna, Surigao City