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(Eagle News) — A Department of Justice panel of prosecutors will hold an ocular inspection of the magnetic lifters that allegedly contained shabu, and which were found last year. Assistant State Prosecutor Mary Jane Sytat on Thursday, Feb. 21, set the inspection of the two magnetic lifters discovered in the Manila International Container Port and the four magnetic lifters in GMA, Cavite to March 4 in the Bureau of Customs, and March 7 in the […]
(Eagle News)—-The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission is currently investigating three Cabinet members. The PACC identified them as Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, National Commission on Indigenous People Chair Leonor Oralde-Quintayo and former Customs Commissioner and now-Technical Education and Skills Development Authority director-general Isidro Lapeña. The probe stems from complaints filed against the three, the PACC said, without revealing more details. The PACC findings will be transmitted to President Rodrigo Duterte.
(Eagle News) — Former Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has officially started his new job as director general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) after taking his oath before President Rodrigo Duterte. In his speech before he turned over his former job to former MARINA administrator Rey Leonardo Guerrero on Wednesday, Oct. 31, Lapeña insisted he had tried to institute reforms at the controversial Bureau of Customs, even as he admitted that […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 25, removed Isidro Lapeña as Bureau of Customs commissioner, replacing him with Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) administrator Rey Leonardo Guerrero. He also ordered the new Bureau of Customs chief, Guerrero, to remove from their key positions all commissioners and department heads of the bureau. He said that these personnel should be placed on “floating status” and that it does not matter that if this will […]
(Eagle News) – Bureau of Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has backtracked on his earlier statement on there was no shabu inside four magnetic lifters found in Cavite, and now admits that these may have indeed contained shabu. This was after hearing various testimonies at the House of Representatives, including that of a Department of Public Works and Highways official on Wednesday, Oct. 24. “With the continuing investigation and yung mga lumalabas na mga circumstantial evidences, […]
(Eagle News) – Newly installed commissioner of the Bureau of Customs, Isidro Lapeña, has abolished the bureau’s Command Center which was created by his predecessor Nicanor Faeldon to issue alert orders for incoming shipments at the customs bureau. Lapeña, through Customs Memorandum Order No. 14-2017, abolished Comcen saying that this creation was not mandated by law. The order “reverted to the deputy commissioners of the Intelligence Group, Enforcement Group, and all district collectors nationwide […]
