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By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Office of the Solicitor General has submitted additional evidence in the drug case against Kerwin Espinosa and his co-accused. Included among those submitted by the OSG during the second hearing of the preliminary investigation into the charges of conspiracy in relation to the sale of illegal drugs against Espinosa, Peter Lim, Peter Co, Max Miro, Lovely Impal, Lovely Ruel Malindangan, Jun Pepito and others were the sworn statements of […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday, April 30, released the validated list of barangay officials allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. PDEA Chief Aaron Aquino said the names of 207 individuals in the list was validated by four government agencies. Of the 207, 90 were barangay captains and 117 were barangay kagawad. PDEA said the most number of involved barangay officials was in Region 5, with 70. This, PDEA said, was […]
Narco-list not a “hit list,” PDEA chief assures (Eagle News)—The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday, April 30, said charges would be filed against barangay officials allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities “in a week or two.” PDEA Chief Aaron Aquino made the statement as he assured the public that the list was not a “hit list.” “We want to be legitimate in our operations, we want our operations to be transparent,” he said. Aquino […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is slated to release this week the names of over 200 barangay officials who are allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. In a press conference, PDEA director general Aaron Aquino said it was Malacañang itself that ordered him to release the 211 names. The figure, he said, was a decrease from the 293 names included in the original narco-list of President Rodrigo Duterte. Forty-one […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, April 23, said the contents of the US State Department’s human rights report were inconsistent with US President Donald Trump’s pronouncements about the Philippines’ drug war. “If I’m not mistaken, President Trump said he knows what he’s (President Rodrigo Duterte) doing in the Philippines. So I do not know how to reconcile the State Department report with the actual statement of the President (Trump),” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. […]
(Eagle News) – Members of the European Parliament urged the Philippine government to “stop extrajudicial killings” on the pretext of war on drugs, claiming that around 12,000 people, including women and children, have been killed in the illegal drugs campaign since July 2016. The resolution, which was adopted on Thursday, April 19, also called on the Philippine government to reverse its earlier decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) or the […]
(Eagle News) – -Authorities arrested actor Julio Diaz in anti-illegal drug operations in Meycauayan, Bulacan on Friday, April 20. A radio report said Diaz was included in the police watchlist. He is known for his roles in movies such as “Paano Tatakasan Ang Bukas?” in 1988, Aliwan Paradise in 1992, and Bayani in 1992.
(Eagle News) — If charges were to be filed against him in connection with the drug war, outgoing Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa said he would face them outright. “Handa ako, as I have said, I may sink or swim with my President, hindi ko siya iiwan,” Dela Rosa said. As of April 13, 19,086 drug offenders were arrested in 12,032 anti-illegal drugs operations since the PNP relaunched the campaign in early December […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Thursday, April 12, maintained its anti-drug operations were “constitutional, legal” and were “implemented in the interest of public safety.” PNP spokesperson Chief Supt. John Bulalacao made the statement after the Supreme Court, in its denial of the state’s motion for reconsideration of a 2017 SC order directing the PNP to release drug war reports, said that the killings in the drug war could be state-sponsored. The SC […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Five suspected kidnappers and a member of the police force were killed during a shootout in Laguna on Tuesday, April 10. The policewoman who was killed in the shootout in Barangay Maharlika around 6 a.m. was identified as PO1 Zarah Jane Andal, while four of the killed suspects were identified as Adalia, Fernandez, Dizon and Rebadulla, based on the police uniforms they wore. The authorities have yet to determine the identity of […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The drug war waged by President Rodrigo Duterte is to be dramatized in the first Netflix series by award-winning director Brillante Mendoza, who says the crackdown is “necessary.” “Amo,” which premieres April 9, is about a high school student who starts selling crystal meth and ends up tangled in a nightmarish world populated by violent kingpins and corrupt officials. It is the latest up-close examination of Philippine life from Cannes-honored Mendoza, […]
But PNP says that while it “respects” SC order, it will “take” OSG’s “legal recommendation” on the matter (Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday said the government has “no other alternative except to comply” with the Supreme Court order to submit reports on the administration’s drug war. But Philippine National Police spokesperson Chief Supt. John Bulalacao said that while the PNP respected the SC order to submit the documents within 15 days upon notice, […]
