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(Eagle News)–An Olongapo court has granted the motion for the issuance of a hold departure order against Dennis Sytin. Branch 74 Judge Richard Paradeza also granted the motion for an HDO filed by the prosecution against Oliver Fuentes alias Ryan Rementilla. The motions were filed after Fuentes and Dennis were charged with the murder of businessman Dominic Sytin, Dennis’ brother, in Subic in November last year. Also charged was alleged gunman Edgar Luib, but the […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service There is no warrant for the arrest of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for coup d’etat just yet. This was after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148 set for hearing on Oct. 5, at 9 a.m., the Department of Justice’s urgent ex-parte omnibus motion seeking for the same and a hold departure order against the senator for his alleged participation in the Peninsula Manila incident in 2007 instead. Earlier, […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati court where the Department of Justice lodged a second motion for an alias warrant and hold departure order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will not issue the warrant just yet. Lawyer Diosfa Valencia, the Clerk of Court of the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 150, said they have to retrieve case records first. Trillanes, who played a prominent role in the Oakwood mutiny and Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati Regional Trial Court has granted the Department of Justice’s request for a hold departure order to be issued against alleged drug lord Peter Lim. Acting Branch 65 Presiding Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos directed the Bureau of Immigration to issue the HDO, as requested by the DOJ in an ex-parte motion, noting that Lim was a flight risk. Only State Prosecutor Herbert Calvin Abugan was present at the hearing on the ex-parte […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has asked a Makati court to direct the Bureau of Immigration to issue a hold departure order against Peter Go Lim and several others recently indicted for drug trade conspiracy. In an urgent ex-parte motion, the DOJ panel of prosecutors composed of Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Juan Pedro Navera, Assistant State Prosecutor Ana Noreen Devanadera, and Prosecution Attorney Herbert Calvin Abugan asked the Makati RTC Branch 67 to issue the […]
(Eagle News) — Regional trial courts can soon issue orders preventing a person suspected of committing a crime from leaving the Philippines. This was after the Supreme Court, voting 11-1, ruled these courts could issue the precautionary hold departure order, which directs the Bureau of Immigration to stop any attempt to leave of an individual facing a crime where the minimum penalty prescribed by the law is at least six years and one day. The […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila Regional Trial Court has issued hold departure orders against the foreigners indicted over the P6.4-billion shabu shipment mess. Richard Chen, Manny Li, Kenneth Dong, Chen Rong Huan, Chen I-Min and Jhu Ming Jyun are now barred from leaving the Philippines. This was after Manila RTC Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa granted the motion of prosecutors which argued there was a strong probability the six would escape prosecution from the case filed […]
(Eagle News)– The Sandiganbayan has issued a hold departure order against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founder Nur Misuari. The HDO stemmed from his alleged misappropriation of P115.2 million intended for the purchase of educational materials when he was governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The anti-graft court’s Third Division said the HDO also applied to Misuari’s co-accused, former Department of Education (DepEd) ARMM director Leovigilda Cinches, chief accountant Pangalian Maniri, Sittie Aisa […]
