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QUEZON City, Philippines – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said that former President Noynoy Aquino is included in the investigation that will be conducted by the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation into the Dengvaxia vaccine snafu. The investigation aims to find out who will be held liable for buying Php 3.5 billion-worth of dengue vaccine that allegedly puts in danger some of its recipients. The anti-dengue vaccine program was implemented under former […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre linked former Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad to an alleged P8.7-billion right of way scam in General Santos City. In a statement, Aguirre said Singson “apparently approved and requested the release of payment of fake RROW claims,” and Abad “apparently approved the release of payment for illegal RROW claims as requested by (Singson).” Aguirre said this was […]
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said on Friday that the government was “P40 billion richer” after Mighty Corp. finally paid its tax liabilities and penalties. Aguirre disclosed this after the Department of Justice granted the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s motion to withdraw the tax evasion complaints filed against the country’s number two cigarette manufacturer. “We could consider this case as closed. (The) government of the Philippines is P40 billion richer,” Aguirre told reporters. According to the […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Monday filed an ethics complaint against Senator Risa Hontiveros over her alleged violation of the Constitution when she publicly displayed photographs of a “private” exchange of messages between him and another. Aguirre filed the complaint after he lodged criminal charges for violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Law against Hontiveros in connection with the same incident on Sept. 5 before the Pasay Prosecutors’ Office. “Yan ang pinakagrabeng nagawa ng […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Monday filed criminal charges against Senator Risa Hontiveros for supposed violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Law. Aguirre personally filed the charges that stem from Hontiveros’ public display of what the justice secretary said were his private messages with a certain Jing during a Senate hearing on the death of Kian Loyd delos Santos. In the messages, Hontiveros said Aguirre urged former Rep. Jacinto Paras to file cases against […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday said the groups holding alleged witnesses to the killings of Carl Arnaiz, Kian Loyd delos Santos and Reynaldo de Guzman have an ulterior motive: To revive the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court. “Natanong niyo bakit di nila nirerelease? Tama sinasabi ko noon…Para mabuhay ang patay nila na kaso laban sa pangulo sa ICC,” he said, referring to the complaint […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday decried what he said was the refusal of Risa Hontiveros’ camp and the Rise Up for Life and for Rights to allow investigators to interview alleged witnesses into the killings of Carl Angelo Arnaiz, Kian Loyd delos Santos, and Reynaldo de Guzman, an act an anti-crime group has said was already tantamount to “obstruction of justice.” Aguirre said for instance, the investigators looking into the killing of Delos […]
(Eagle News) — Former Rep. Jacinto Paras on Thursday said he would file charges against Senator Risa Hontiveros for making public what he said should have been private text messages between him and Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre without their consent. Hontiveros said in a privilege speech on Monday that Paras–now affiliated with the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption–was the recipient of Aguirre’s “Let us expedite your cases against (Hontiveros)” text, which she was able to […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday defended Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre after Senator Risa Hontiveros made public a text message the justice secretary supposedly sent, urging a former lawmaker to “expedite cases” against her. “That is so naive,” Duterte said. He said no one was, after all, allowed to “make an inference” about someone who was only exercising his constitutional right. Duterte was apparently referring to Aguirre’s right to private communications, which the […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre decried what he said was the “shameless violation of a citizen’s right to the privacy of communications,” after Senator Risa Hontiveros showed during a privilege speech what she said were his text messages urging a speedy filing of cases against her to a Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption member during a Senate hearing. Without admitting that he had actually sent the messages, Aguirre said in a statement on […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday asked Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre to resign after messages he purportedly texted showed he urged someone to “expedite cases” against her. In her privilege speech, Hontiveros showed pictures of Aguirre using his cellphone during a Sept. 5 hearing into the killings from the war on drugs. A zoomed in version of the photos showed the exchange of text messages between Aguirre and a certain “Cong. Jing,” who […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to locate the taxi driver who was supposedly robbed by Carl Angelo Arnaiz on the day he was killed by alleged pursuing police. Aguirre gave the order to locate Tomas Bagcal, who had said that Arnaiz had held him at gunpoint and then had taken his wallet on Aug. 18. In one version of his affidavit, Bagcal said Arnaiz declared […]
