Tag: Franklin Bucayu

DOJ files 3 drug-related charges vs De Lima before Muntinlupa RTC

    (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. […]

De Lima asks NBP officials to explain illegal activities, luxurious living of drug inmates

(Eagle News Service) — Justice Secretary Leila de Lima asked  officials of the New Bilibid Prisons, including the commander of the jailguards in NBP’s maximum security compound, to explain how the drug inmates had managed to live luxuriously while inside the prison compound. De Lima asked NBP head Superintendent Franklin Bucayu for the list of all the assigned officers in the NBP’s maximum security compound, to determine who should be blamed for the illegal activities […]