ONLINE personality Francis Leo Marcos is in for more legal woes as the National Bureau of Investigation filed additional complaints against him on Thursday over his supposed alias.
NBI Cyber Crimes Division chief Victor Lorenzo said aside from violation of the anti-alias law, the agency also filed a case of inciting to sedition in relation to Paragraph 4, Article 139 of the Revised Penal Code against Marcos.
The provision states that one of the objectives of the crime of sedition is to “commit for any political or social end any act of hate or revenge against private persons or any social act.”
Lorenzo said Marcos violated Paragraph 4 of the RPC with his YouTube and Facebook videos apparently sowing inflammatory statements and hate.
“In his videos, Francis Leo Marcos was seen apparently sowing inflammatory statements tending to conflagrate a class war between the rich and the poor. Ostensibly, his purpose was to inflict any act of ha
te or revenge upon a social class, in this case the residents of Green Meadows in Quezon City,” Lorenzo said, referring to videos showing Marcos telling his affluent neighbors to donate to the poor amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lorenzo said Marcos’ claim that his neighbors were not helping the poor tended to “inflict hatred” towards them.
Lorenzo said Marcos’ real name is Norman Mangusin and he does not have a judicial declaration that he had changed his name to Francis Leo Marcos, a violation of the anti-alias law.
He said the complaints were filed before the Manila City Prosecutors Office.
Lorenzo said they are also eyeing the filing of complaints against Marcos for violation of the Passport Law since he has a passport identifying him as Mangusin.
“We have already communicated with the DFA and we are just waiting for their answer. Once we get it we will also file a case against him,” he said.
Marcos was arrested by the NBI based on a warrant issued by a Baguio City court for violation of the optometry law after he distributed eyeglasses without permission from the Philippine Association of Optometrists.
Marcos said the case against him was initiated by several optical clinics in Baguio that were losing income due to his distribution of free eyeglasses when he conducts medical missions.
Lorenzo said they are also verifying information that Marcos has a pending case for qualified human trafficking before a Manila court.
