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(Eagle News) — The camp of Australian nun Patricia Fox said it would question the Bureau of Immigration’s decision to forfeit her missionary visa, and order for her to leave. In a television interview, Jobert Pahilga, Fox’s counsel, said they would first file a motion for reconsideration with the BI. If the BI denies their motion, he said they would elevate the issue to the Court of Appeals, and then to the Supreme Court if […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, April 20, showed pictures of Catholic nun Patricia Fox apparently speaking in rallies, debunking the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines claim that the Australian nun whom President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered investigated never spoke in the protests. “Well I now have a picture…Malinaw na malinaw po na kasama po siya, may hawak po siyang mikropono..I am just telling the bishops, hindi po sinabi ni Sister Fox sa […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel on Tuesday, April 17, expressed support for the government’s decision to deport European Union socialist party official Giacomo Filibeck, saying foreigners in general were not exempt from the laws of the country. “There is a law here in the Philippines (and this is also generally the rule in many countries) that foreigners are not allowed to meddle in our internal politics/political matters…These foreigners who come here should not […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Retired police officer Wally Sombero has surrendered to the police. Incoming Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said Sombero’s surrender on Wednesday, April 11, was facilitated by “retired senior officers” who called Albayalde up a day before. On the same day, the Sandiganbayan found probable cause for the plunder case against him, and his co-accused former immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles. The cases were in connection with […]
(Eagle News) — Former immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles posted on Tuesday a P60,000 bail each for their provisional liberty. The bail, which they posted before the Sandiganbayan’s sixth division, was in connection with the charges for the one count each of violation of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, direct bribery, and violation of Presidential Decree No. 46 filed against them in connection with the P50-million bribery scandal involving […]
(Eagle News) – The plunder case filed against former immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles, and retired police officer Wenceslao “Wally” Sombero Jr. was re-raffled to the Sandiganbayan Sixth Division on Friday, April 6. This was after the Sandiganbayan en banc approved on Thursday the inhibition from the case of Fourth Division chairperson Associate Justice Alex Quiroz. Quiroz made the move after admitting one of the accused was an “acquaintance.” The Sixth Division […]
(Eagle News) — The Office of the Ombudsman has indicted former immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles after they allegedly attempted to extort P50 million from businessman Jack Lam last year. Apart from Argosino and Robles, Wally Sombero faces one count for violation of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, direct bribery and Presidential Decree No. 46. PD No. 46 sanctions government officials who receive gifts from private individuals. Argosino and […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has ordered the deployment of over 50 immigration officers to several airports in time for the long holiday. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said the deployment of the 58 officers to various field offices across the country aims to “minimize, if not eradicate, long queues of passengers” in immigration counters. Of the 58, he said 38 were immigration officers assigned to the BI main office and other satellite offices in Metro […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate has recommended the filing of charges against former Immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles for their alleged attempt to extort P50 million from gaming tycoon Jack Lam in November 2016. This was after the plenary on Tuesday adopted the report and the recommendations of the blue ribbon committee to file the graft and corruption, plunder and direct bribery charges against them. The panel, led by Senator Richard Gordon, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Magde-deploy sa susunod na buwan ng nasa isandaang (100) bagong immigration officer ang Bureau of Immigration sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) at sa iba pang major port sa buong bansa. Ayon kay Chief Personnel Officer Grifton Medina, ito kasi ang magsisilbing on-the-job-training ng mga bagong recruit na immigration officer matapos ang dalawang buwang training sa Philippine Immigration Academy sa Clark, Pampanga noong nakaraang linggo. Sa nasabing training ay itinuro […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration will deport a Chinese fugitive allegedly wanted in China in 2016 for economic crimes. In a statement, BI spokesperson Ma. Antonette Mangrobang said Jiang Yabo, 36, will be flown to China when the agency gets all the necessary clearances. Bobby Raquepo, head of the agency’s Fugitive Search Unit, said the summary deportation order was issued against Jiang on October 27, 2016, or two months after he was placed on […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Monday announced the arrest of a South Korean allegedly behind a multi-million dollar “telephone fraud scheme” in his country. In a statement, BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Jung Hyojin, 35, was nabbed by BI Fugitive Search Unit agents in Malate, Manila on Thursday, February 22. According to BI FSU chief Bobby Raquepo, Jung, who is the subject of an Interpol red notice, was the leader of a […]
