Tag: Aaron Aquino

Aaron Aquino named new head of Clark International Airport Corporation

(Eagle News)–Aaron Aquino is the new head of the Clark International Airport Corporation. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea confirmed Aquino’s new appointment on Wednesday, May 27, a day after Wilkins Villanueva, PDEA chief of Northern Mindanao, broke the news he had been appointed as PDEA director-general, Aquino’s post for over two years. PDEA spokesperson Derrick Carreon said Aquino had been “relieved” to assume another assignment, but did not specify what this was. In a statement, Presidential […]

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After accepting anti-illegal drug czar post, Robredo says UN should let PHL gov’t solve drug problem first

  (Eagle News) – After accepting the post as the country’s new anti-illegal drug czar, Vice President Leni Robredo has changed her tune and now wants the United Nations not to interfere yet in the Philippine government’s drug war. After convening her first meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), Robredo said that the Philippines should be given the opportunity to fight and solve its illegal drug problem. “I have said […]

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After convening first ICAD meeting, Robredo open to witnessing ground operations vs illegal drugs

(Eagle News) – Vice- President Leni Robredo conducted her first meeting with the different members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) on Friday, Nov. 8, and said that it had been “really a listening exercise” for her. “Kasi before today, I did not have access to the data that I had today,” she said. Robredo thanked all the efforts of the agencies under ICAD for their efforts to wage the war against drugs. […]

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Magalong welcomes joint Senate panel recommendation to file raps vs Albayalde

(Eagle News)–Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong has welcomed the charges recommended against former Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde by a joint Senate panel that probed the ninja cops issue. It was Magalong, now the Baguio mayor, who told senators about Albayalde’s call to then-Central Luzon regional police director Aaron Aquino for him not to implement the dismissal order against the 13 policemen behind an irregular drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga […]

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Albayalde: Police officials “ganging up on me” have “ill motives, worked with previous admin”

(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, Oct. 10, said the police officials who were “ganging up” on him have “ill motives” against him “and obviously all worked with the previous administration.” Albayalde said retired general Rudy Lacadin, in particular, who told a Senate joint panel looking into the ninja cops issue that the PNP chief called him upon learning he was probing the 2013 Pampanga raid of 13 policemen and told him […]

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Aquino admits Albayalde asked him not to implement dismissal order vs 13 cops behind 2013 Pampanga raid

(Eagle News)–Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Chief Aaron Aquino on Thursday, Oct. 3, admitted now-Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde called him in 2016 to ask him not to implement the dismissal order against the 13 policemen behind the 2013 Pampanga raid. Aquino made the admission a day after Senator Richard Gordon said he was “disappointed” with the PDEA chief, who said in a previous Senate hearing that while Albayalde called him, this was only to […]

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PDEA Chief Aquino: Some people plotting vs my family

(Eagle News)–Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino on Thursday, Oct. 3, revealed some people were plotting against his family. Aquino said  the information was relayed to him by a friend, who called him  two days ago or on the same day he revealed in a Senate joint panel that now-Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde called him up in 2016 to ask the status of the cases filed against 13 policemen behind a 2013 […]

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Gordon: Albayalde told Aquino to refrain from signing dismissal order vs 13 “ninja cops,” Aquino said

(Eagle News)–Then-National Capital Region Police Office director Oscar Albayalde called Aaron Aquino, the then-police director of Region III,  and asked him to not sign the dismissal order against the 13 policemen behind the allegedly anomalous raid in Pampanga in 2013. Senator Richard Gordon said this was Aquino’s narration to him and Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon before the Senate joint hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, Oct. 1. “Yun nga kinausap […]

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Magalong confirms meeting with President Duterte to talk about “ninja cops” behind 2013 Pampanga raid

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte recently  met with former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino to discuss what happened during the 2013 Pampanga raid. This was confirmed by Magalong himself, upon questioning by Senator Richard Gordon during the joint Senate panel’s hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, Oct. 1. According to Magalong, he and Aquino were called by the President to Manila […]

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Former CIDG chief on illegal drug trade in PHL: “All roads lead to Bilibid”

Adds some PNP officials “recycle” illegal drugs (Eagle News)–A former head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group  on Thursday, Sept. 19, said  “all roads practically lead to Bilibid” where the illegal drug trade is concerned. Benjamin Magalong, now the mayor of Baguio city, told a joint Senate panel hearing corruption in the Bureau of Corrections that based on a CIDG investigation when he was CIDG chief,   Chinese drug personalities “continue to remotely manage the […]

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PDEA chief: Recycling of illegal drugs rampant

(Eagle News)–Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino on Monday, Sept. 16, admitted illegal drugs recycling was rampant among law enforcers, even among PDEA agents, an admission, a senator said, of the failure of law enforcement. Aquino made the admission under questioning by Senator Panfilo Lacson during the Senate finance panel’s hearing on the proposed P2.497-billion budget of PDEA for 2020. “Ang puntos ko dito, not even PDEA is exempted,” Aquino told reporters. He noted, […]

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Criminal charges filed vs 44 individuals over shabu hidden in magnetic lifters in Manila, Cavite

(Eagle News) — Criminal charges were filed on Thursday, Dec. 13, against 44 individuals implicated in the shabu shipment that were hidden in magnetic lifters discovered in Manila and Cavite this year. Among those charged for conspiracy to commit illegal drug importation, trade and transportation, for  graft, obstruction of justice, among others, were former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency deputy director general for administration Ismael Gonzales Fajardo Jr., former Customs intelligence officer Jimmy Guban, Insp. Lito Pirote, […]

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