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(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Sept. 14, announced a P500,000 reward for any information that would lead to the arrest of Peter Go Lim. Guevarra said the government was ready to give the reward “provided that such information will lead to the actual arrest of said fugitive.” “The DOJ warns persons coddling (Lim) who has been indicted for conspiracy to trade in illegal drugs, that they will be prosecuted for obstruction of justice […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Department of Justice maintained the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148’s order dismissing the coup d’état case against him “may simply be ignored” as “in contemplation of law, it is “non-existent.” In its eight-page reply, the prosecution said this was because the Sept. 21, 2011 order of the court was based “solely” on the amnesty, which Proclamation 572 has declared void ab initio. “The dismissal has no leg to […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday, Sept. 11, expressed elation at the Supreme Court’s decision to junk Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s request for a temporary restraining order against Proclamation No. 572. In a statement, Guevarra said that with the decision, the SC “also acknowledged the trial courts’ continuing jurisdiction over the coup d’ etat and rebellion cases, notwithstanding the alleged ‘finality’ of the orders of dismissal based on the grant of amnesty” to […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday, Sept. 10, asked a Makati court to junk a Department of Justice motion seeking for an alias warrant and a hold departure order against him. In seeking for the dismissal of the motion filed before Branch 148 of the Makati Regional Trial Court, Trillanes said the court no longer has jurisdiction over him since the case filed against him in connection with the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003 “had […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati court where the Department of Justice lodged a second motion for an alias warrant and hold departure order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will not issue the warrant just yet. Lawyer Diosfa Valencia, the Clerk of Court of the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 150, said they have to retrieve case records first. Trillanes, who played a prominent role in the Oakwood mutiny and Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice maintained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was still facing a coup d’état case despite a Makati court issuing an order dismissing the same. In a statement, Acting Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon said this was because the amnesty granted to Trillanes, on which the dismissal of the case was supposed to be anchored on, was void ab initio, or was as if it never existed in the first place. “Thus […]
(Eagle News) — Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano on Wednesday, Sept. 5, urged the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to not follow what he said was the “illegal order” to arrest Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. “There is no warrant of arrest and there are no charges to begin with,” Alejano said in a statement. According to Alejano, the PNP and the AFP were “the army of and for the Filipino people.” “Do […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Department of Justice formally asked the Makati City Regional Trial Court to issue an alias warrant of arrest against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The DOJ made the request via a very urgent ex-Parte omnibus motion filed before Branch 148. According to the motion, the coup d’état case filed against Trillanes in connection with the Oakwood mutiny and Manila Peninsula incident was still pending in the first place. This […]
(Eagle News) — Catholic nun Patricia Fox on Monday, Sept. 3, asked the Department of Justice to review and set aside the Bureau of Immigration’s deportation order against her. In her petition, Fox reiterated that the BI “prejudged” her case. She also denied she violated the terms of her missionary visa as claimed by the BI, saying that the activities the agency said were “political” in nature were actually “consistent with her congregation’s charism and mission by […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Charges have been filed against a former television personality after she allegedly emailed a bomb threat to an airline company. Charged for violation of the Presidential Decree 1727 that prohibits individuals from sending bomb jokes was Janette Alano Tulagan. Tulagan, who was charged before the Department of Justice, was arrested by the police in her house in Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City after authorities determined the IP address of […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has asked the prosecutor whose altercation with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority traffic enforcers went viral over the Internet to respond to the complaint filed against her. “We asked prosecutor (Christine Villamora) Estepa to comment on the MMDA complaint, similar to a show-cause order. She will submit shortly,” Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday, Aug. 29. According to Guevarra, the DOJ will then “decide if we should dismiss the […]
(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 […]
