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(Eagle News) — The chief of police of Albuera, Leyte admitted upon questioning by Senator Leila De Lima that the former justice secretary herself was on the top of the list of personalities connected to illegal drugs, based on the latest affidavit of slain mayor Rolando Espinosa. During the senate hearing investigating the mayor’s killing, Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido, also disclosed that Mayor Espinosa had told them that De Lima was given P8 million by his […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (November 10) – Senator Leila De Lima filed a petition for Writ of Habeas Data against President Rodrigo Duterte but before we react, do we know what a Writ of Habeas Data? Habeas Data is a remedy available to any person whose right to privacy in life, liberty or security is violated or threatened by an unlawful act or omission of a public official or employee, or of a private individual or entity engaged […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday (November 8) directed Senator Leila de Lima and the Office of the Solicitor General to submit their respective memoranda within 10 days on the issue of the President’s immunity from suit. In a press briefing, Supreme Court spokesperson Theodore Te said that this directive from the court was “without necessarily giving due course” to the petition for habeas data filed by Senator de Lima earlier on […]
(Eagle News) — Slain Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa had named former Justice Secretary and now senator Leila de Lima in his final affidavit taken by policemen in August, saying she and his son Kerwin met in Baguio City sometime in March 2016 to talk about the illegal drug trade. This was contained in his six-page affidavit that Albuera policemen took in August. He named De Lima several government officials and members of the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima, two of her former close aides, and three former government officials reporting to the former justice secretary had been issued an immigration lookout bulletin order (ILBO) for their alleged involvement in the rampant illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). The Department of Justice’s immigration lookout bulletin order was issued against De Lima, former justice undersecretary Francisco Baraan, former Bureau of Corrections head Franklin Jesus […]
(Eagle News) — A former policeman who has been detained at the New Bilibid Prisons for the last 15 years testified of how he personally delivered P1.5 million in cash to then former Justice Secretary Leila De Lima placed inside a gift-wrapped shoe carton box. Former Police Officer 3 Engelberto Durano, a member of the Batang Cebu Brotherhood member, told the House committee on Justice hearing that he personally handed over to De Lima […]
(Eagle News) — A member of the Presidential Security Group who was once detailed as a close-in security of former Justice Secretary Leila De Lima testified before the House of Representatives on the alleged closeness and sweetness of De Lima to her former driver Ronnie Dayan. Jonel Sanchez was the first witness presented at the House hearing Thursday morning by the Department of Justice. Sanchez chose to testify even if the House committee on […]
(Eagle News) – A senior police officer earlier tagged by Senate witness Edgar Matobato as being allegedly involved in extrajudicial killings in Davao City, branded Matobato as a liar and that “politics” could be behind him. Senior Police Office 3 Arturo Lascanas angrily denied at the Senate all allegations made by Lascanas against him, including his alleged involvement in the so-called Davao Death Squad. He denied that there was a Davao Death Squad, and […]
(Eagle News) — A former police chief inspector who has been imprisoned at the New Bilibid Prisons since 2004, revealed that the drug trade at the NBP became rampant starting 2012 when Leila de Lima was already the Justice Secretary. At the start of the hearing of the House of Representatives on the illegal drug operations at the national penitentiary, former Chief Inspector Rodolfo Magleo, said that there had been a P50,000 quota a […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima was replaced as chair of the Senate committee on justice and human rights Monday night, after majority of the senators voted to declare as vacant the chairmanship and membership of the said committee. There were 16 senators who voted “yes” to the motion of Senator Manny Pacquiao to declare the membership and chairmanship of the controversial senate committee vacant. Four senators voted “no” while two more abstained. It […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II branded as “lies and fabrications” the allegations made by a witness produced by senator Leila De Lima before the Senate, saying that these were products of a “fertile and coached imagination.” He also branded the presentation by De Lima of witness Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed hired killer, as a “desperate” move meant to divert public attention from allegations of illegal drug connection being hurled against the […]
