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By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The acting prosecutor general who approved the dismissal of drug-related charges against self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and several others in December last year has resigned from the post. Makati Prosecutors Office head Jorge Catalan Jr., who was designated head of the National Prosecution Office on June 22, 2017, said that “much as (he) would like to carry on with the parallel arrangement,” he “cannot compromise or sacrifice (his) […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service A Department of Justice panel of prosecutors on Wednesday, May 30, granted businessman Peter Lim’s request to be investigated separately from his co-accused in a drug complaint filed against them, but his failure to face the panel on the same day prompted the panel to declare his case submitted for resolution just the same. In granting Lim’s request to be subjected to a preliminary investigation separate from Kerwin Espinosa, […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa on Tuesday, May 15, reiterated his call for the drug-related charges filed against him to be dismissed. In his response-affidavit submitted before the new Department of Justice panel looking into the cases filed against him and several others, Espinosa said his “admission” he was a drug distributor in a Senate hearing in 2016 should not be used against him because there was no “proverbial corpus […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Office of the Solicitor General has submitted additional evidence in the drug case against Kerwin Espinosa and his co-accused. Included among those submitted by the OSG during the second hearing of the preliminary investigation into the charges of conspiracy in relation to the sale of illegal drugs against Espinosa, Peter Lim, Peter Co, Max Miro, Lovely Impal, Lovely Ruel Malindangan, Jun Pepito and others were the sworn statements of […]
(Eagle News)–Resigned Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre listed down his accomplishments before leaving office on Tuesday, April 10. In his last flag-raising ceremony as justice secretary, Aguirrre said “in less than two years,” the Department of Justice has achieved: “1. The grant of the long-requested and long sought 30-day Forfeitable Wellness Leave to prosecutors; 2. The procurement and distribution of one (1) brand new laptop each per prosecutor; 3. The groundbreaking of the DOJ Academy and […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima has urged a probe into what she said were the recent spate of killings against members of the legal profession. “Since the beginning of this administration, in spite of constant calls for action to protect members of legal profession, the numbers of lawyers killed have increased and without any significant executive or legislative action taken,” De Lima said in filing Senate Resolution No. (SRN) 668. De Lima cited […]
(Eagle News) –Businessman and alleged drug trafficker Peter Lim has asked the Department of Justice to conduct a preliminary investigation into the drug charges filed against him separate from the one conducted for his co-respondents. Apart from Lim, self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, Lovely Impal, Peter Co, and several others have been accused by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of conspiring to sell, transport and trade shabu. In an ad cautelam motion […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice on Friday appealed a Manila judge’s decision not to inhibit from the illegal gun possession and illegal drug trafficking cases filed against Kerwin Espinosa. Government prosecutors filed the motion for reconsideration of Manila RTC Branch 26 Presiding Judge Silvino Pampilo, Jr.’s decision in a hearing on Friday, April 4. Pampilo had then said he would not inhibit as he said the allegations of bias made against him were not […]
(Eagle News) –Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for the “trust and confidence” he said he gave him during his stint as justice secretary in his first-ever statement after his resignation was announced by the chief executive. Aguirre was, however, mum about why he resigned in the first place. Instead, he thanked the “undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and the other officials of the DOJ and all of the agencies under the DOJ family for welcoming […]
If abuses are committed, they “cannot claim immunity from having to account for them,” Poe says (Eagle News) — Three senators hailed Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s resignation, with one saying it only proves no one is safe in President Rodrigo Duterte’s official family. “Pwede kang ma-endo anytime by the President…Whether the exit was graceful or unceremonious, one thing is also certain — the actions undertaken by the resigned official while in office can be assessed […]
(Eagle News)–The State Prosecutors and Prosecution Attorneys Association Inc. (SPPAAI) expressed “alarm” over the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission’s request to place under preventive suspension the prosecutors who dismissed the charges against Kerwin Espinosa and others. In a statement, the group said the act of requesting to also file administrative charges against Assistant State Prosecutor Michael John Humarang, officer in charge-Senior Deputy State Prosecutor Rassendel Rex Gingoyon, Acting Prosecutor General Jorge Catalan, and former Assistant State Prosecutor […]
(Eagle News) — The new panel of prosecutors formed to review the complaint filed against Kerwin Espinosa and others has summoned all the parties in the case for the conduct of a preliminary investigation next month. The panel composed of Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Juan Pedro Navera, Assistant State Prosecutor Anna Noreen Devanadera, and prosecution attorney Herbert Calvin Abugan ordered respondents Espinosa, Peter Co, Peter Lim, Marcelo L. Adorco, Max Miro, Lovely Impal, Ruel Malindagan and […]
