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(Eagle News) — The Angeles City Regional Trial Court has granted the bid of prosecutors to allow one of the police officers implicated in the kidnapping of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo to turn state witness. Judge Irineo Pineda Pangilinan Jr. of Branch 58 said that SP04 Roy Villegas’ testimony “is absolutely necessary to prove conspiracy among the accused who are charged with conspiring and confederating with each other on the alleged abduction of […]
(Eagle News) – The Senate is now hearing the “Tokhang for Ransom” cases ailing the Philippine National Police, prompted by the scandal on the kidnap-slaying of Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo in October last year. Senator Panfilo Lacson, head of the senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs, said this investigation should be done as the reputation of the national polie force had been tarnished with Jee Ick-Joo’s killing that had even reached […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang assured the public that there will be no cover-up or whitewash in the investigation of police officers involved in the kidnap-slay of Korean businessman Ji Ick-Joo, as it expressed “outrage” about the incident. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella released a statement Sunday saying that the Duterte administration would not tolerate “corrupt, abusive, errant” policemen who were involved in the crime. “We are outraged by the abduction and slay of a South Korean […]
