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(Eagle News)–Suspended Bureau of Corrections legal officer Fredric Santos had expressed readiness to tell all on the Good Conduct Time Allowance mess before he was killed, Senate President Tito Sotto said on Wednesday, Feb. 19. According to Sotto, Santos gave this information to him through Senator Panfilo Lacson. “Yes. The Department of Justice should get to the bottom of this dastardly act,” Sotto said. Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the blue ribbon committee that probed […]
(Eagle News) — The legal officer of the Bureau of Corrections who was suspended by the Ombudsman over the Good Conduct Time Allowance scheme was killed on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Authorities said Fredric Anthony Santos was on board his vehicle when he was attacked by at least two men at 1:50 p.m. in Barangay Poblacion in Muntinlupa. According to a police report, Santos was supposed to fetch his daughter when the attack took place. Santos, […]
(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) – New Bureau of Corrections (BuCor director Gerald Bantag has removed more than 300 prison guards of the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) and replaced them with 500 policemen from Metro Manila. “We have a directive from the President for a total revamp and to clean up the BuCor. There are allegations of irregularities so we relieved them,” explained BuCor spokesperson Wena Fe Dalagan. In an effort to remove so-called scalawags at the […]
(Eagle News)–More than 3000 Bureau of Corrections personnel will undergo retraining on orders of newly installed Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag. Bantag made the revelation on Friday, Oct. 4, the same day policemen from the National Capital Region Police Office arrived to temporarily take their place. “We will give them para masolve ang problema dito. Ang problema dito illegal drugs syndicate,” National Capital Region Police Office director Guillermo Eleazar said. According to Bantag, it […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde will face the joint Senate panel hearing the problems in the Bureau of Corrections amid issues hounding the police force. In a statement, Albayalde said he would issue clarifications on allegations some policemen were involved in illegal drugs recycling to the Senate blue ribbon and justice panels. “The PNP’s internal cleansing will be relentless and will continue on until all rogue cops especially those involved in illegal drugs […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv6jaL-sFSo (Eagle News)–Some inmates from jail facilities under the Bureau of Corrections are being tapped to kill people outside, Senate President Tito Sotto said. Sotto said he received the information as a joint Senate panel conducts a probe into the problems in BuCor, following the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. During the probe, witness Yolanda Camelon testified she paid P50,000 to several BuCor personnel for the […]
(Eagle News)–Former jail warden Gerald Bantag on Friday, Sept. 20, took his oath as the new Bureau of Corrections director-general. Bantag took his oath before Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, days after he was appointed to the post by President Rodrigo Duterte. His appointment came after Duterte sacked Nicanor Faeldon as BuCor director-general following the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. The Palace has said Bantag, a former Parañaque […]
(Eagle News)–Rolito Go, who was freed under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, was among those who did not surrender before the 15-day deadline. Go was convicted of the 1991 killing of Dela Salle University engineering student Eldon Maguan in a road rage incident in San Juan City. This was confirmed by National Capital Region Police Office Chief Guillermo Eleazar, who said he has already deployed tracker teams to look for the 176 convicts […]
(Eagle News)–The “remedial move” of revising the implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time and Allowance law is but a mere “cover-up” of the “most scandalous incident of corruption” in the Menardo Guevarra-led Department of Justice and this administration. This is according to Senator Leila de Lima, who issued the statement following the signing of the IRR revised by a joint DOJ and Department of the Interior and Local Government panel given the […]
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 […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel probing the problems in the Bureau of Corrections has recommended the establishment of a separate jail facility for convicts of heinous crimes. The Senate committees on justice and human rights, public order and dangerous drugs and finance made the recommendation through Senate Bill No. 1055, which was based on the bills separately filed by Senate President Tito Sotto and Senators Richard Gordon and Juan Miguel Zubiri. Sotto’s Senate Bill No. […]
