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(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice is gathering information on an online message board that is linked to mass shootings abroad and which is allegedly being run from the Philippines. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said this was before the DOJ would decide whether looking into 8chan–where the gunman in the El Paso, Texas shootings was supposed to have made a post in reference to the killings—was something the National Bureau of Investigation should do. 8chan was […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe corruption in the Bureau of Customs. Guevarra’s directive to NBI director Dante Gierran was contained in Department Order No. 383 issued on Friday, July 26. His order came days after President Rodrigo Duterte railed against corruption and illegal drugs in his fourth State of the Nation Address. “Further, Director Gierran is hereby directed to submit reports on the progress of the […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government is “prepared to face any inquiry” to be conducted by the United Nations with regards to the war on drugs of President Rodrigo Duterte that has been criticized recently by more than two dozen countries, mostly from Europe. This was according to the Philippine department of justice which stressed that the country “need not be told by anyone” on how to conduct its controversial anti-illegal drug campaign. “With […]
(Eagle News) – Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra confirmed that the two whistleblowers of the WellMed Dialysis Center who exposed the ghost dialysis claims made by the center, have been admitted provisionally into the Witness Protection Program. The former WellMed employees who were granted provisional admission into the WPP under the Department of Justice (DOJ) are Edwin Roberto and Liezel Aileen De Leon. “They were provisionally admitted into the WPP, good for 90 days,” Guevarra said. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra as officer in charge of the national government with the chief executive away to attend the 34th Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Bangkok, Thailand. According to Special Order 631, Guevarra will serve as OIC from June 21 to 23. The order said all of the acts of Guevarra for and on behalf of Duterte “shall be deemed acts of the President unless […]
(Eagle News) – Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said that the action of President Rodrigo Duterte to put the Bureau of Customs “under the watchful eye” of the military was just “temporary,” and that civilian rule in the controversial agency should still be supreme at all times. In a message to reporters, Guevarra said that the “President, as Chief Executive, has the power of supervision and control over the entire Executive Dept, and is duty-bound […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice has filed its motion for partial reconsideration with the Makati Regional Trial Court branch 148, seeking a partial reversal of its ruling on the non-issuance of an arrest warrant for Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The DOJ’s motion was filed on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m., according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Oct. 26. With the filing of the motion, the DOJ is asking the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) will file a motion for reconsideration before the Makati regional trial court as it sought a partial reversal of Judge Andres Soriano’s decision that junked an earlier government motion for an arrest warrant against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said that the “motion for partial reconsideration” of the order of Makati regional trial court branch 148 will be filed “not later than Friday,” […]
(Eagle News) – “This is just the beginning. This is not the end.” This was the pronouncement of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra after Makati Regional Trial branch 148 judge Andres Soriano “denied due course” to their motion seeking an arrest warrant and a hold departure order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on the coup d’etat case initially filed in the said Makati court. Gueverra said the Department of Justice will still elevate this to […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – All the undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of the Department of Justice have already submitted their “courtesy resignation” as of Monday, April 30, in compliance with a memorandum issued by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra. Guevarra himself confirmed that all the five undersecretaries and the seven assistant secretaries of the department had tendered their resignations. The DOJ chief said that some of the said officials had even […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang on Monday, April 16, said it was only exercising its sovereignty when it blocked the entry of a European socialist party politician for violation of immigration laws, and ordered him deported. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said that Giacomo Filibeck, who was stopped at the immigration counter of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Lapu-Lapu on Sunday, April 15, had, after all, been blacklisted for violating the law provision that prohibits tourists staying in […]
(Eagle News) – Newly appointed Justice chief Menardo Guevarra took his oath as the new secretary of the Department of Justice on Thursday night, April 5, effectively replacing Vitaliano Aguirre II who submitted his resignation letter on the same day. Guevarra took his oath as the new DOJ secretary before President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacanang. He said that it was only two days ago that Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go had […]
