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KALIBO, Aklan (Eagle News) – Western Visayas remains the top destination for foreign tourists traveling to the country. According to the Department of Tourism (DOT) in Region 6, in the first six months alone, foreign tourist arrivals in the region have reached over 2 million. DOT Regional Director Helen Catalyst said that the top foreign tourists to visit Region 6 are Koreans. They are followed by the Chinese, the Taiwanese, Americans and Malaysians.
(Eagle News) — A former police officer who owned the funeral parlor where Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo was cremated vowed to tell all that he knows about the case. Gerardo Santiago came back to the country from Cxanada Friday morning, around 6 a.m., saying he wanted to clear his name. He also claimed that there were threats to his life. He said that while he was in Canada, he was advised not to go back […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte vowed he would not let criminal cops who had tainted the integrity of the national police off the hook, as he stressed that the cops responsible for the kidnap-slaying of a Korean businessman would “suffer.” The President on Thursday apologized to the South Korean government and all its citizens for what happened to South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo who had been abducted and killed by certain policemen from the […]
(Eagle News) — Police excesses and crimes are not isolated incidents, according to Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday, when he showed CCTV footages of cops planting drugs and stealing from their victims during an actual alleged police raid. During a senate inquiry on “tokhang for ransom,” Lacson, chair of the senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs which is conducting the probe, showed video evidence against rogue cops. The video footage showed the […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) — Security in around the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City will be heightened following confirmed reports that Korean businessman Ji Ick-Joo was killed inside its premises. All CCTV recordings inside Camp Crame will be reviewed, according to PNP Spokesperson Police Senior Supt. Dionard Carlos. They are now coordinating with the PNP headquarters support service to review all CCTV recordings taken on October 18 and 19 2016, when the […]
(Eagle News) — Policemen have now fetched from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) the main cop suspect in the abduction and killing of a Korean businessman last year. After an Angeles City court issued an arrest warrant for SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel and other cops involved in the crime, a team from the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group went to the NBI to serve the arrest warrant on Sta. Isabel. Sta. Isabel […]
(Eagle News) – The head of the Philippine National Police expressed deep shame that those involved in the abduction-slay of a Korean businessmen were members of his police force and that the victim was even killed inside the police’s national headquarters. PNP chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said he wanted to disappear from the face of the Earth after learning of the crime that happened right inside PNP’s Camp Crame in Quezon City.. […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice is recommending the filing of a kidnapping for ransom with homicide case in court against three police officers involved in the abduction and killing of Korean national Jee Ick Joo last year. Assistant State Prosecutor Olivia Laroza Torrevillas found probable cause to charge SPO3 Ricky Sta Isabel, Ramon Yalung and two other police officers for the October 18, 2016 abduction and killing of Korean businessman Ji Ick […]
(Eagle News) — Ibinunyag ni Justice Seceretary Vitaliano Aguirre II na may ilang matataas na opisyal ng Philippine National Police (PNP) ang dawit umano sa pagdukot sa dating executive ng Hanjin Shipping Firm na si Jee Ick Joo. Ayon kay Aguirre, tinukoy na ni SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel ang mga opisyal ng pulis na kasangkot sa pagdukot kay Jee noong October 18, 2016. Bukod pa aniya ito sa walong kakuntsaba umano ni Sta. Isabel na […]
(Eagle News) — The South Korean government is asking the Philippine government for an explanation regarding the murder of one of its nationals who was apparently a kidnap for ransom victim, by certain police officers under the Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Group. This came about as Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said other PNP officers could be involved in the kidnapping. But he refused to name these officers. The South Korean Foreign Minister Yun […]
