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(Eagle News) — The Manila Regional Trial Court has found probable cause for the drug charges filed by the Department of Justice against alleged drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa. The Manila RTC Branch 51 said there was also probable cause for the same charges against Peter Co, Lovely Impal, Marcelo Adorco and Ruel Malindangan. It issued a warrant for the arrest of the accused, even if all, except Malindangan, are already in custody. No bail was […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Aug. 23, urged Peter Lim to surrender. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the pronouncement days after Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 65 ordered his arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading. Lim’s co-accused are self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, Lovely Impal and Marcelo Adorco, among others. The charges against the group had been junked by a first panel of Department of Justice […]
(Eagle News) — The couple who figured in a viral video arguing with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority commander Bong Nebrija and traffic enforcers who had only tried to issue a ticket to the woman for illegal parking has apologized. “We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the MMDA enforcers especially to Col. (Nebrija) and Constable Azures. We ask for your understanding as emotions got the best of us,” the woman said […]
(Eagle News) — Customs chief Isidro Lapeña still has the trust of President Rodrigo Duterte despite the smuggling of an estimated P6.8 billion of shabu into the country last week, the Palace said on Monday, Aug. 13. “Buo ang paniniwala at tiwala pa rin ni Presidente kay General Lapeña at ang nais niyang mangyari is paano masusugpo ito at matigil na itong practice na ito, at hahabulin pa rin natin yung kung ano man yung nakapasok kung […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Justice has found probable cause to file charges against businessman Peter Lim for conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading with suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and several others. In finding probable cause against Lim, Espinosa, Ruel Malindangan and Marcelo Adorco, the panel composed of Senior Assistant State Prosecutors Juan Pedro Navera, Anna Doreen Devanadera and prosecution lawyer Herbert Calvin Abugan gave weight to the admission of Espinosa he was a drug […]
(Eagle News)—The government should stop its bid to have the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army declared as terrorist groups,a lawyer for two individuals who were recently declared as “non-parties” to the case said. According to Rachel Pastores, who represents former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo and National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Rafael Baylosis, the “policy” of also “linking our clients, activists, and critics of the government to the CPP-NPA” […]
(Eagle News)–A Manila court has declared Satur Ocampo and several others, including a United Nations rapporteur, as “non-parties” to the government’s plea Communist rebels be tagged as terrorists. Apart from the former Bayan Muna representative, Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 declared UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and former Baguio City councilor Jose Melencio Molintas as non-parties, noting that there was no proof in the DOJ petition that Molintas and Corpuz were indeed officers of the […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday, Aug. 8, hailed the Supreme Court’s decision allowing regional trial courts to issue precautionary hold departure orders against suspects. “I thank the SC for giving the DOJ, with the assistance of the courts, the ability to temporarily prevent the flight of persons undergoing preliminary investigation for serious offenses such as drug trading, human trafficking, large-scale estafa, and terrorism, without prejudice to the outcome of the investigation. This is […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati City Regional Trial Court has reset the arraignment of self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa and his co-accused. Instead of Thursday, Aug. 2, Branch 64 Judge Gina M. Bibat-Palamos scheduled the arraignment of Espinosa, Peter Co, Lovely Impal, Marcelo Adorco and Ruel Malindangan to Aug. 29, after their lawyers said they would file a motion for reconsideration of the second Department of Justice panel that found probable cause for the filing of a conspiracy […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed four new high-ranking officials at the Department of Justice. In a statement, the DOJ said the President appointed lawyers Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, Adrian Sugay, Mark Perete as undersecretaries; and Neal Vincent Bainto as assistant secretary upon the recommendation of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra. Villar, Sugay and Perete replace as undersecretaries Raymund Mecate, Erickson Balmes and Reynante Orceo; while Bainto replaces Assistant Secretary Juvy Manwong. Mecate, […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The acting prosecutor general who approved the dismissal of drug-related charges against self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and several others in December last year has resigned from the post. Makati Prosecutors Office head Jorge Catalan Jr., who was designated head of the National Prosecution Office on June 22, 2017, said that “much as (he) would like to carry on with the parallel arrangement,” he “cannot compromise or sacrifice (his) […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Businessman and suspected drug lord Peter Go Lim has asked the Supreme Court to put a stop to the Department of Justice’s reinvestigation into the drug charges filed against him. In seeking for a temporary restraining order and/or a writ of preliminary injunction on the preliminary probe conducted by a second panel of prosecutors, Lim, in his 48-page petition for certiorari, argued that the March 19 DOJ order that […]
