COMPAINT

DETERMINATION OF SUFFICIENT GROUND

 address of the respondent BY INVESTIGATING OFFICER
 affidavits of the complainant and If there is NONE If THERE IS
his witnesses
 supporting documents to establish DISMISS RESOLUTION AND
10D
probable cause subscribed and INFORMATION
sworn to With authority and
 copies as there are respondents, HEARING approval of: Shall certify under oath that he,
or an authorized officer,
By investigating officer if there are facts and issues to be provincial or city personally examined the
clarified from a party or a witness. prosecutor complainant and his witnesses;
10D The parties can be present at the hearing but or  there is reasonable
Without the right to examine or cross-examine. chief state ground to believe…;
May, submit to the investigating officer questions which prosecutor  accused was informed
may be asked to the party or witness concerned. or of the complaint and of
INVESTIGATING OFFICER Ombudsman or
Terminated within 5D deputy.
the evidence submitted
against him;
Continue with the Dismiss
 he submitted
investigation, or
Upon petition by a proper party under such rules as the controverting evidence.
Issue a subpoena with Department of Justice may prescribe or motu propio,
10D Secretary of Justice reverses or modifies the resolution of
 copy of complaint
the provincial or city prosecutor or chief state prosecutor, he 5D
 affidavits and
shall direct the prosecutor to file info or dismiss w/o another
 documents.

COUNTER AFFIDAVIT OF RESPONDENT RESOLUTION TO THE PROVINCIAL OR CITY

RESPONDENT
Examine the evidence
 not have been
furnished
 if voluminous
those specified
by complainant
Copy them at his expense.
If the respondent
CANNOT be subpoenaed,
or
10D if subpoenaed, DOES
NOT submit counter
Investigating office resolve
based on the evidence
presented by the
complainant.
The counter-affidavits
 subscribed and
sworn (a)
 copies
The respondent shall not
be allowed to file a motion
to dismiss in lieu of a
counter-affidavit.
PROSECUTOR OR CHIEF STATE PROSECUTOR, OR
TO THE OMBUDSMAN OR HIS DEPUTY
If the disapproved (for ombudsman in cases of
on the ground that a offenses cognizable by the
probable cause Sandiganbayan in the exercise
exists, may, of its original jurisdiction)
by himself, or direct They shall act on the resolution
another assistant
within 10D
prosecutor or state
prosecutor to file the immediately inform the parties of
information even such action
without another P.I.