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Facts: A resident of City Nova enters a private art gallery in City Verda and steals a painting valued at 3,500,000 pesos at 9:40 p.m. on a Thursday. He flees toward City Zenith by helicopter and is arrested in City Orbis five days later. The painting is later recovered in City Orbis.   (a)Identify the controlling doctrine on where criminal jurisdiction lies for this offense and which court has original jurisdiction. (b)Distinguish between the place of the offense and the venue for filing the information, and indicate which governs in this scenario. (c)Based on the facts, determine the proper forum (city and court) and the venue for filing the information, with brief justification.