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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – A son of former Honduran president Porfirio Lobo was sentenced to 24 years in an American prison on Tuesday for conspiring to smuggle cocaine and sell it in the United States. The hefty punishment for Fabio Lobo was meant as a warning to corrupt members of Latin America’s political elite, the New York City judge ruling over the trial, Lorna Schofield, said. She said Lobo had used his connections […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) –Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has ordered the police to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest in the latest effort to eradicate drug use in the country. In a speech to one of Indonesia’s political parties late Friday, Widodo urged law enforcers to crackdown on drug dealers in Indonesia. “Be firm. Especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country. If they resist even the slightest, just shoot them,” Widodo said. The Indonesian […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel said that the arrest of Senator Leila De Lima will not affect the work of the Senate, adding that it will be business as usual for the Senate. Pimentel also said that the law enforcers – in the conduct of the arrest and service of warrant – should respect the Senate as an institution. Senator Leila De Lima is facing drug charges for her alleged […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nahaharap sa panibagong drug trafficking case si Senadora Leila De Lima sa Department Of Justice. Sina dating NBI Deputy Directors Reynaldo Esmeralda at Ruel Lasala ang naghain laban kay De Lima ng reklamong paglabag sa Section 5 ng Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 o ang ukol sa illegal drug trading trafficking at conspiracy sa pagsasagawa nito. Bukod kay De Lima, sinampahan din ng kaparehong reklamo nina Esmeralda at Lasala si […]
THE Brazilian government on Tuesday (April 28) said it received with “profound consternation” the news that a Brazilian citizen had been executed in Indonesia along with eight other mostly international prisoners earlier in the day. The government also said this event compounded with the execution by firing squad of the Brazilian national Rodrigo Gularte earlier this year combined to create a “serious issue” as far as relations between Brazil and the southeast Asian country. “The Brazilian […]
As a Europe-wide crackdown on illegal migrants involved in drug trafficking was implemented, a migrant workers’ group in Denmark warned undocumented Filipino workers in said country to get legal aid necessary to put their papers in order.
In Hong Kong, Filipinos involved in cases of drug trafficking rose to 37 , with an additional 14 involved in illegal drug possession. Authorities advise OFWs going to Hong Kong to stay away from illegal activities and to examine carefully packages that they are asked to carry.
Indonesia released on parole convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby on Monday (February 10) from a prison on the resort island of Bali despite calls from some legislators for the high-profile prisoner to serve out her full term. Corby, 36, was among nearly 1,300 convicts approved for parole, the Justice Ministry said in a statement, because she “fulfilled substantive and administrative requirements as laid out by the law”. Corby was sentenced to 20 years in […]
