As reported by Tempo news service (8/2/07):
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested in Manila a woman doctor for allegedly maintaining a makeshift clinic where she was performing abortion.
The NBI set up an entrapment and sent an asset to pose as a pregnant woman who wanted her baby aborted. She met Ventura at her clinic. The latter allegedly agreed to initiate the abortion procedures but advised the asset to undergo obstetrical ultrasound as a basis to determine the service fee.
On July 24, the NBI asset presented to Ventura the ultrasound result. She demanded an amount of R10,000 for the procedure. Two days later, the asset returned to the clinic for the abortion. Ventura allegedly had just received the marked money from the asset when the law enforcers barged into the clinic and arrested her. Ventura is facing violation of Article 259 (abortion practiced by a physician) of the Revised Penal Code and corruption of public officials under Article 212 of the RPC.