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by Michelle FITZPATRICK Agence France-Presse FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Friday said it had agreed to pay a fine of 81.25 million euros ($99 million) to end a German corruption probe into the 2003 sale of Eurofighter jets to Austria. Prosecutors in Munich said in a statement that their investigation did not find evidence of bribery to secure the lucrative contract. But they said Airbus management had failed in […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinangunahan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang pag-bulldozer o pagwasak sa P61-milyong halaga ng mga smuggled luxury car sa South Harbour, Port Area sa Maynila kasabay ng pagdiriwang ng ika-116 na taong anibersaryo nito. Nasa tatlumpung mga smuggled luxury car ang winasak sa Customs sa Maynila. Kasabay din itong isinagawa sa Davao City kung saan pitong sasakyan ang sinira habang tatlo naman sa Cebu City. Kabilang sa mga sinirang mga mamamahaliing […]
MALE, Maldives (AFP) — Maldives Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and another Supreme Court judge were arrested at dawn Tuesday, hours after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency, police said. Justices Saeed and Ali Hameed were arrested along with the court’s top administrator Hassan Saeed after security forces stormed the court complex in Male, with police citing complaints of corruption against them in a brief statement. The high profile arrests followed the arrest Monday […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore will amend a law that allowed a megachurch pastor to escape a harsher prison term for fraud despite funnelling millions in church funds into his wife’s music career, a senior official said Monday, following a public backlash. In a case that fascinated Singapore with a heady mix of religion, showbiz and fraud, Kong Hee and five other church leaders were convicted in 2015 of spending Sg$24 million ($19.8 million) from a […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate blue ribbon committee has once again summoned former Customs Chief Nicanor Faeldon to its hearing on corruption in the Bureau of Customs. But his lawyer, Jose Diño, has said he doubted his client would attend the hearing slated on Monday, January 29. “He will maintain, I think, his right to his personal dignity, specifically his right not be browbeaten (again) with hopelessly, unprovable, and garbage allegations,” Diño said. Faeldon, who is […]
by Eugenia Logiuratoo Agence France-Presse PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AFP) — A Brazilian appeals court Wednesday upheld ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s conviction for corruption, dealing a body blow to his hopes of running for re-election this year. The three-judge panel sitting in the southern city of Porto Alegre unanimously ruled that his original 9.5-year jail sentence will be extended to more than 12 years. Thousands of Lula supporters rallied in Sao Paolo to protest […]
Roberto Delfin, DoTR supervising transport officer, placed under 90-day suspension (Eagle News) — Transportation Secretary Art Tugade has ordered the filing of charges against an agency official following allegations he accepted a P150,000 bribe through his aide in exchange for favorable action on a company’s application for a route measure capacity, among others. Roberto Delfin, the Department of Transportation’s supervising transportation and development officer, was placed under a 90-day preventive suspension pending the results of an […]
(Eagle News) — The South Korean bidder for the Navy’s acquisition of two frigates was already chosen during the administration of former President Benigno Aquino III. As such, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Special Assistant to the President Bong Go could not have intervened in the process, as erroneously insinuated by several media organizations. He said the winning bidder, Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a bid price of P15,744,571,584 for two frigates, was declared on June […]
The chief of the Sasmuan, Pampanga municipal station was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly extorted P30,000 from an amusement park operator. Chief Insp. Romeo Bulanadi was nabbed after he accepted the marked money from a member of the Philippine National Police’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force at 7:15 p.m., at the Sasmuan Municipal Police Station. Bulanadi allegedly prevented the operator from hauling its equipment without giving the money. Charges for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to fire yet another head of office and several policemen. Duterte himself made the announcement during a Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation event at the Manila Hotel on Thursday. The media were not invited to the event but a transcript was made available on Friday. “I am in the thick of firing people. I intend to fire another maybe 70 or 49 policemen and three generals for corruption,” […]
(Eagle News) — Ipinag-utos ng Departmet of Justice (DOJ) sa National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) na imbestigahan ang isyu ng nawalang mahigit 1,000 armas sa Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters na sinasabing ibinenta sa New People’s Army (NPA) sa Mindanao. Ang kautusan ay inilabas ni Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II kasunod ng direktiba mismo ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Sa Department Order No. 007 na pirmado ni Aguirre, inatasan din ang NBI na mag-case build up. […]
(Eagle News) — Expect a “cleansing” among local government officials. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said President Rodrigo Duterte declared his intent to do this in a Cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon. “The President mentioned (in the Cabinet meeting) his resolve also to clean up the ranks of the local government executives to highlight that it’s not just presidential appointees that would be subject to this campaign to promote public accountability but includes everyone in government,” […]
