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(Eagle News) – Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director-General Gerald Bantag vowed to clean the BuCor and the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP), with the help of other committed government and police personnel, despite threats to their safety and even to their family. In an exclusive interview by Eagle News Service reporter Gerald Rañez, Bantag said that he values the trust given to him by President Rodrigo Duterte when he appointed him as Bucor chief. How […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte advised senator Leila de Lima to just answer in court the drug-related charges filed against her at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court by the Department of Justice on Friday, February 17. “She has to face the music. Actually ilang testigo ‘yan (There are several witnesses), it took months to develop the case,” Duterte told reporters during his visit to the wake of soldiers killed in action in Panacan, […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed three separate drug-related charges against Senator Leila de Lima at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court for her alleged participation in the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). The charges filed on Friday, February 17, were for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 or Dangerous Drugs Act, Section 5, penalizing the “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation” of illegal drugs. […]
(Eagle News)– Senator Leila de Lima on Friday (December 2) skipped the first preliminary probe of the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the four complaints filed against her in connection with the illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). De Lima has earlier announced that she won’t show up, since her presence was not really required. She said she would just send a representative who will obtain the copies of complaints. De Lima sent her staff, Romeo Siazon, to […]
(Eagle News) — The reason why high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian was stabbed during an alleged riot inside the New Bilibid Prison on September 28, was to prevent him from testifying at the congressional inquiry probing the alleged involvement of Senator Leila De Lima on the illegal drug trade at the national penitentiary. This was revealed in an affidavit of NBP inmate Tomas Doniña who was the one who stabbed Sebastian. Doniña’s affidavit was read […]
(Eagle News)– Because of his delicate health condition, convicted kidnapper and high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian failed to attend the resumption of hearings at the House of Representatives on Thursday morning (October 6) regarding the illegal drug anomalies at the national penitentiary. At the start of the hearings in Congress, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said that Sebastian was supposed to appear that morning but that the recommendation of the medical doctor attending to him was […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has sufficient evidence to file a case against Senator Leila De Lima regarding her alleged role as protector of illegal drug operations in the New Bilibid Prisons. According to Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar, Senator Leila De Lima is not an ordinary personality and that’s the reason why President Duterte will not recklessly accuse her without sufficient evidence. Andanar added that the matrix of drug operations in the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) guaranteed that they have witnesses to prove the alleged connection between Senator Leila De Lima and the illegal drug operations in the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). According to Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, the DOJ has five to six witnesses against the senator that are ready to face the congressional investigation. Aguirre also said that he already has in his hands a sworn statement regarding the […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said trafficking of shabu happened unhampered inside the National Bilibid Prisons right under the nose of then Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and that her driver had a role to play in it. In his press conference held Sunday at 1 a.m., the President also pointed to the relationship between De Lima and her driver that gave rise to corruption inside the national penitentiary. The President also declared […]
(Eagle News Service) — The senate is set to review the possibility of reviving death penalty in the country. In an interview with senate reporters, Senator Vicente Sotto III has again revived his call for the re-imposition of the death penalty in the country, following the exposed luxurious prison lifestyle of several convicted drug lords in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). The senator, however, said that he will amend his bill that imposes death penalty […]
(Eagle News Service) — Justice Secretary Leila de Lima asked officials of the New Bilibid Prisons, including the commander of the jailguards in NBP’s maximum security compound, to explain how the drug inmates had managed to live luxuriously while inside the prison compound. De Lima asked NBP head Superintendent Franklin Bucayu for the list of all the assigned officers in the NBP’s maximum security compound, to determine who should be blamed for the illegal activities […]
Nineteen druglords have been brought to the National Bureau of Investigation from the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City. This was after no less than Justice Secretary Leila de Lima conducted a surprise inspection of the facility on Monday, December 15, 2014, and found that that the maximum security compound of NBP had such amenities as a jacuzzi, sauna, music studio for the drug lords imprisoned there. She also discovered various drug paraphernalia and cash […]
