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By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The charges for drug trading against him may have been dropped, but a senator believes ex-Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, who is detained in the Senate for his refusal to attend subsequent hearings on corruption in the Bureau of Customs, will not be a free man just yet. “I can see it going on for seven years. That’s what happened in one case,” Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the blue […]
(Eagle News) — Two Bureau of Customs officials who resigned after they were dragged by a fixer into corruption in the BoC have been appointed to other agencies, but only to handle security matters. President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Milo Maestrecampo, former BoC Imports and Assessments director, as assistant director general II of the Department of Transportation-attached Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, and former Customs Deputy Commissioner Gerardo Gambala, as director IV of the DoTR’s […]
(Eagle News) — A high-ranking Customs official who was accused of receiving grease money has resigned from his post. Isidro Lapeña, Bureau of Customs chief, said in a radio interview that Deputy Commissioner Gerardo Gambala, head of the Management Office Information and Technology System, tendered his “irrevocable resignation” almost two weeks ago. Lapeña said Gambala, who was included in Senator Panfilo Lacson’s list of Customs officials and employees who received grease money from several players, […]
