Is it true that there is an arrest warrant for Bill Gates in the Philippines for premeditated murder?

At the beginning of March 2023, information about the criminal prosecution of an American billionaire in an Asian country spread across the Internet. We checked whether this news is true.

As reported on social networks, the Serious Crimes Court of Manila (Philippines) issued an arrest warrant for entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates for “premeditated murder related to the introduction of a vaccine.” The decision was allegedly made based on data from the local prosecutor's office, according to which the number of deaths in the Philippines has risen sharply following the COVID-19 vaccination campaign: "Hundreds of thousands of citizens have died and many more have been injured and maimed." However, according to an unnamed Philippine judge, the number of “victims” of vaccinations “will increase exponentially over time.” According to online publications, Gates faces a prison sentence of at least 20 years and one day.

Many posts also claim that the Philippines has a history of fighting vaccines - allegedly back in 1995, local authorities shut down a UNICEF program in which residents of the country were given a tetanus vaccine secretly mixed with an abortion drug.

The news made the rounds on websites such as Cont.ws, "Newspaper I", News2.ru, Gorodche.ru And Ufospace.net, as well as social networks: “VKontakte” (in the public “Movement "For the truth about the results of the experiment""at the time of writing, it was read by 39,000 people), Telegram (channels "Coincidence» — 68,000 views, Gura Anton — 63,000, "Slovo TV Tsareva» - 28,000) and LJ.

"Verified" already told about the origins of a fairly popular conspiracy theory, whose adherents claim that Bill Gates wants to reduce the human population with the help of vaccines. The allegations surfaced in 2010 when Mame-Yaa Bosumtwi, a former employee of a Ghanaian medical project partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, alleged that the foundation was testing contraceptives on unsuspecting villagers in the Navrongo region as part of a “population reduction experiment.” A careless statement made by Gates himself that same year added fuel to the fire, calling advances in medicine (including vaccines) a factor contributing to a reduction in the growth rate of the Earth's population (note, not a decrease in the number of people on the planet). In fact, the entrepreneur meant that this result would inevitably be brought about by a reduction in infant mortality, since parents would want to provide their children with a decent future and would not think about having new ones.

Despite the lack of any evidence in the Ghanaian case (Bosumtwi's accusations were denied by local authorities), Bill Gates has since become a constant target of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. A new wave of popularity of the conspiracy theory associated with him came in 2020–2021, when Gates began to be suspected of creating the coronavirus for the same inhumane purpose, and one of these news stories was very reminded the current one (“a court in Peru accused Bill Gates…”). In other widely shared news, Bill Gates incriminated creation of a vaccine against coronavirus, allegedly leading to infertility. Both of these theses (as well as many similar ones) have long been refuted fact checkers. Note that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does actively finances various activities for vaccination and immunization of the population of different countries of the world, but has never been involved in scandals with proven cases of mixing harmful drugs into vaccines.

Regarding the news about the issuance of a warrant in the Philippines, let's start with the fact that there is no court for serious crimes in this country. You can verify this by scrolling through list judicial institutions of the country or by reading structure this branch of government on the official website. About the absence of such a body in a conversation with the agency Reuters An associate professor and former lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Law also said.

There is no official report or reputable media report in the Philippines or other countries regarding the arrest warrant for Bill Gates. This rumor was also denied by the billionaire’s representative in a commentary to the same Reuters. Moreover, the already mentioned former teacher of the University of the Philippines Diane Desierto assured, that Philippine courts in principle do not have the power to issue international arrest warrants: “An arrest warrant may only be served within the territory of the Republic of the Philippines and, depending on the level of the court issuing the warrant (for example, regional or municipal), only within the boundaries of the said region or municipality.”

Like the vast majority of other countries, the Philippines' COVID-19 vaccination program is state. The participation of Bill Gates or his foundation in it is not confirmed. Universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the Philippines started in March 2021, and the fastest pace reached between November and February of the following year. Moreover, between September and December 2021, the mortality rate in the country came down from peak figures to ordinary figures. Thus, there is no correlation between coronavirus vaccination and increased mortality in the country. The three most common causes of death in 2021 in the country, according to official statistics, included coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, and COVID-19. At the same time, if for the first two groups of deaths there is no statistics on the percentage of vaccinated people, then regarding COVID-19 as ministry of health, so municipal authorities drew public attention to the high mortality rate among those who did not receive the vaccine.

Viral posts claim that the Philippines already has experience in shutting down vaccination programs after dangerous additives were discovered in the drugs. Indeed, in 1995, in this and five other countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Tanzania), there was a widespread rumor that the tetanus vaccine distributed by international organizations was contaminated with a substance that reduces female fertility. In response to WHO released press release in which she stated that the rumors are completely false and have no scientific basis, and the contents of the vaccine were independently tested in Italy (in a laboratory selected as much as possible conservative in matters of artificial influence on fertility by the Vatican), Hungary, the Philippines, the USA and the Netherlands and all tests for the presence of this dangerous substance gave a negative result. However, in the Philippines, due to these rumors, the authorities temporarily suspended tetanus vaccination, and even the percentage of those agreeing to vaccination against polio dropped from more than 90 to 35. A similar rumor occurred in 2014 in Kenya, which again demanded WHO interventions. Adherents of this theory have not yet provided a single piece of evidence that a foreign substance entered the tetanus vaccine.

Finally, the primary source of the news about the arrest warrant for Bill Gates was the resource News Punch, which is widely known as a site that regularly spreads misinformation. On March 2, 2023, it was there that an article was published about the decision of the Philippine court, in which there was not a single reference to relevant documents or public statements by the authorities. According to Poynter Institute, by mid-2018, at least 80 messages from this site had been refuted by independent fact checkers (45 of them through a partnership with Facebook). The resource formerly known as YourNewsWire has changed its name and address exactly due to a decrease in coverage in the social network news feed as a result of such checks and the appearance of corresponding warnings. At the same time, the resource cannot be called satirical - in the “About Us” section it is stated that it team "produces original reporting, political commentary and entertainment for American and Western audiences." Many of these publications touch on sensitive topics or promote conspiracy theories.

Thus, there is no reason to say that the news about the arrest warrant for Bill Gates is real. All statements in it related to the personality of the American entrepreneur do not correspond to the facts, and its first appearance on the Internet was recorded on a site that is notorious for distributing fakes.

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