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(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed three separate drug-related charges against Senator Leila de Lima at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court for her alleged participation in the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). The charges filed on Friday, February 17, were for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 or Dangerous Drugs Act, Section 5, penalizing the “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation” of illegal drugs. […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments confirmed today the ad interim appointment of Vitaliano Aguirre II as Justice Secretary. In a hearing Wednesday afternoon (February 15) at the Senate, the CA confirmed Aguirre’s appointment as head of the Department of Justice, after the speeches of Senators Loren Legarda and JV Ejercito extolling the qualities and experience of Aguirre, befitting his position as the Justice chief of the country. It was Legarda who […]
(Eagle News) – Fireworks again flew during the confirmation hearing for Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II with Senator Antonio Trillanes questioning the credibility and ability of Aguirre to head the Department of Justice. Trillanes particularly pointed out a previous statement of Secretary Aguirre saying that drug lords and other criminals are not “humanity.” The senator said Aguirre’s statement had bothered him. The particular quote from Aguirre which was reported in the media was this: […]
(Eagle News) – Controversial former police officer and alleged Jack Lam middleman, Wenceslao “Wally” Sombero is now back in the country, claiming that he did no wrong when he left even if there was an immigration lookout bulletin order (ILBO) against him. In a press conference upon his arrival from Vancouver, Canada, Sombero said in the first place, any person who is the subject of an ILBO cannot be prevented from leaving, based on a decision issued […]
https://youtu.be/3T3shxDCnss (Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima accused the government of making extra effort to hasten the filing of cases against her, which she said was a violation of her right to due process. “Di ba dati ko nang sinabi sa inyo yung advance info ng DOJ (Department of Justice), na talagang pinabibilisan na nila? May mga ilang kaso na ipapadala nila sa Ombudsman, pero meron ding ipapadala sa regular trial court,” she […]
(Eagle News) – Armed Forces chief of Staff General Eduardo Año confirmed that they wrote a report on alleged illegal and unauthorized fixtures inside the cell of high-profile inmates detained at the Camp Aguinaldo custodial center of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). He said that the AFP did regular checks at the Military Police Battalion Custodial Detention Center (MPBCDC) and part of the results of their investigation was to make a report […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Dapat magpakita ng kagandahang loob ang rebeldeng grupong CPP-NPA at patunayan ang kanilang sinseridad sa kung ano ang napagkasunduan. Ito ang sagot ni Justice Secretary Vitallano Aguirre II sa isyu ng pag-papaaresto sa mga NDF consultant na pansamantalang pinalaya upang dumalo sa peace talks sa pagitan ng rebeldeng grupo at ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas. Pagliliwanag ng kalihim, conditional ang piyansa ng mga nakalayang consultant, at maituturing silang wanted kung tapos […]
(Eagle News) — Nagtalaga na ng bagong piskal si Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre na hahawak sa kaso ng dinukot na koreanong negosyante sa Angeles City, Pampanga. Ayon sa kalihim, si Prosecution Attorney Loverhette Jeffrey Villordon ang bagong piskal na hahawak sa reklamong isinampa ng pnp-anti kidnapping group kaugnay sa pagkawala ni Jee Ick Joo. Pinalitan ni Villordon si Assistant State Prosecutor Hjalmar Quintana na nag-inhibit makaraang maghain ng motion for inhibition ang kampo ng respondent […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News)– Senator Leila De Lima denied accusations that she and Senator Antonio Trillanes had a hand in the stabbing of Jaybee Sebastian at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City last September 2016. In a press statement, she said that the accusations against her and Trillanes are in line with the propaganda thrust of the Duterte administration to pin all the blame on them. “If I were responsible for the stabbing, […]
(Eagle News) – It was New Bilibid Prison inmate Tomas Donina who had linked Senators Leila de Lima and Antonio Trillanes IV to the previous attempt to kill controversial inmate Jaybee Sebastian in September last year. This was the clarification of Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II amid denials from De Lima that she was behind any attempt on the life of Sebastian who had earlier linked her to the illegal drug trade […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice filed criminal charges against Senator Leila de Lima before a Quezon City court for advising her then driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayan to ignore the summons of the House of Representatives to its inquiry on the illegal drug trade. The DOJ found probable cause in the complaint filed by House leaders who had earlier recommended that charges for obstruction of justice be filed against the senator. The formal complaint for […]
(Eagle News) — Retired police official Wally Sombero filed a graft complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman against two deputy commissioners of the Bureau of Immigration for allegedly extorting money from Chinese gambling tycoon Jack Lam. Sombero filed the graft complaint against immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles for bad faith, manifest partiality and gross inexcusable negligence for causing undue injury to government, punishable under Section 3(e) of the Ant-Graft and Corrupt […]
