Model Deniece Cornejo, Businessman Cedric Lee and Simeon Raz, Jr. were now given the Regional Trial Court (RTC) to post bail in connection with the case of serious illegal detention filed against them by the comedian actor “It’s Showtime” co-host Vhong Navarro.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) set the bail to the amount of P500,000 each.

The report was confirmed by Atty. Sal Panelo on Monday, September 15, 2014 during the interview with Jun Lingcoran of DZMM noting the statement from the office of Atty. Howard Calleja, Deniece legal counsel.

“Nakatanggap sila ng mensahe na nagkaroon ng nag-grant ng bail. In fact, pati sila lola of Deniece Cornejo ay pumunta sa court to get a copy of the resolution. …The court has confirmed na mayroon ngang grant ng bail,” Panelo said.

According to the explanation of from the camp of Cornejo, Atty. Howard Calleja told Ka Tunying on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 during the morning show “Punto Por Punto” Atty. Calleja said that Navarro’s camp failed to prove the strength of their evidence the reason that the court granted bail to their clients.

The statement was also narrated by Atty. Sal Panelo during the interview at the DZMM, he said: “Lagi naming sinasabi na walang serious illegal detention sapagkat unang-una paano magkakaroon ng serious illegal detention, alam natin na nabugbog si Vhong Navarro dahil ‘yung mga nag-rescue kay Deniece ay naabutan siyang na sexual assault. So nung binubugbog siya hindi mo pwedeng sabihin na dini-detain siya dahil that’s inherent sa pagsuntukan o pag-rescue. ‘Di naman pwede na sasabihin mo na na-detain mo ‘yan kasi hindi nakaalis dahil binubugbog mo, kaya walang illegal detention doon. At pangalawa siya ay dinala sa presinto,” he added.

The camp of Cornejo consider this as positive development in their case. Legal counsel Atty. Calleja has issued statement to welcome the court’s decision.

“This is a big step in proving what we have been reiterating from the inception of this case which is the truth — that our clients are innocent of the charges against them,” the statement read.

However, he netizens has reacted over the court’s decision saying, “since the court has allowed the 3 to post bail that means to say that the claimed of Cornejo saying she was 6xually assault by the actor Vhong Navarro on January 22 on her condo unit is true.”

Many of the netizens were confused on how our court regarded of presenting the evidence in the since that the camp of Navarro has presented concrete evidences that convinced the decision of the court to detain the suspects of Navarro’s mulling incident.

Meanwhile, Cornejo who accused Navarro of 6xual assault on January 17 and 22, has filed two r@pe complaints but dismissed by the court. At this time, Cornejo is detained under the custody of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group at Camp Crame in Quezon City, while the two Lee and Raz are detained at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig.