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(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Wednesday, Oct. 2, said former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Benjamin Magalong called him up once to ask him for a favor. Albayalde made the remark in an interview over ANC, after Magalong accused him of calling up Aaron Aquino, then the region 3 police director, to ask him to review the cases filed against several of his men over a controversial drug raid in Pampanga […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will defer taking any action following the allegations against Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde and 13 policemen who were ordered dismissed but were later only demoted for engaging in the recycling of illegal drugs. Before leaving for Russia on Tuesday night, Duterte said he would wait for the joint Senate panel to complete its probe first. He said he would then submit the Senate panel report to Interior Secretary Eduardo […]
(Eagle News)–Now-Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde was among those who got a sport utility vehicle after the questioned 2013 drug raid in Pampanga, former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong said. Magalong told a joint Senate panel hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, Oct. 1, that this was according to then-PNP Chief Alan Purisima, who as a result ordered Magalong to probe the raid in Mexico. Magalong said the […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Tuesday, Oct. 1, questioned the motive of former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong for hurling allegations against him. During the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, Albayalde said Magalong, who was at one point the top three man in the Philippine National Police, could have followed up on the dismissal order against then-Col. Rodney Baloyo and his men. Baloyo and his team […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News)—–Baguio city has a new mayor. Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director Benjamin Magalong is now officially back in government service after he won the mayoralty race in the City of Pines. His vice mayor is Faustino Olowan. Magalong had anchored his platform on a “truthful, honest, result-oriented, and integrity-driven leadership.” As then-director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, he headed the Board of Inquiry that looked into the botched Mamasapano operation […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a former beauty queen and a retired general to government posts. Margie Moran, former wife of Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr., an ally of Duterte, was designated as a member of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ board of trustees. Her term of office will end on June 30, 2018. Retired police director Benjamin Magalong, for his part, was appointed as a member of the board […]
