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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Special Sixth Division of the Court of Appeals has dismissed Senator Leila De Lima’s petition for a temporary restraining order against the investigation conducted by the Department of Justice on the criminal charges against her in connection with her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison. In a resolution dated February 10, the CA Special Sixth Division refused to issue a temporary restraining […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed three separate drug-related charges against Senator Leila de Lima at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court for her alleged participation in the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). The charges filed on Friday, February 17, were for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 or Dangerous Drugs Act, Section 5, penalizing the “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation” of illegal drugs. […]
MANILA, Philippines(Eagle News) — Inatasan ng Korte Suprema si Senador Leila De Lima na maghain ng kontra salaysay sa panibagong disbarment case na inihain laban sa kanya. Ang disbarment case ay isinampa ni Atty. Fernando Perito. Binigyan ng Supreme Court si De Lima ng sampung araw para sagutin ang reklamo. Hindi inilahad ng Korte Suprema ang batayan ni Perito sa disbarment case laban kay De Lima. May nakabinbin na ring ilan pang disbarment complaint laban […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Habang nakapending ang kaniyang Writ of Habeas Corpus, pinag aaralan na raw niya ang paghahain ng Writ of Amparo sa Korte Suprema sa susunod na linggo kung saan ang respondents ay ang Pangulo, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, Solicitor General Jose Calida. Ito raw ang kaniyang nakikitang proteksyon para sa kaniyang right to life at security. Sa pamamagitan rin aniya nito ay matitigil na ang panghaharas ng gobyerno laban sa kanya. Inamin […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News)– Senator Leila De Lima denied accusations that she and Senator Antonio Trillanes had a hand in the stabbing of Jaybee Sebastian at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City last September 2016. In a press statement, she said that the accusations against her and Trillanes are in line with the propaganda thrust of the Duterte administration to pin all the blame on them. “If I were responsible for the stabbing, […]
(Eagle News) – A day after filing an ethics complaint with the Senate against Senator Leila De Lima, House leaders today filed a criminal complaint against her with the Department of Justice for snubbing the House inquiry on the illegal drug trade and for instructing her driver-bodyguard to hide and do the same. The House leaders who filed the criminal complaint were House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, House Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Farinas and House […]
(Eagle News) — Liberal Party (LP) senators Franklin Drilon and Leila de Lima have dismissed allegations from President Rodrigo Duterte that his “yellow” critics are plotting his impeachment. “Walang katotohanan yan. We have not discussed any plot to change the President. We respect the mandate of the people,” Drilon told reporters. De Lima, a staunch critic of Duterte, said LP stalwarts were just making their voices be heard when they opposed the so-called extrajudicial killings, reimposing of death penalty, […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives issued a “show cause order” against Senator Leila De Lima and is set to serve this with the Senate today, Tuesday, November 29. House members have agreed to just ask the Senate to “discipline” one of its members for interfering in the House hearing by preventing her former bodyguard and lover, Ronnie Dayan, from testifying last October. Lawmakers agreed not to issue an arrest warrant anymore against […]
(Eagle News) — Because of new leads that have come up, the Office of the Ombudsman is now investigating Senator Leila de Lima over allegations that she was involved in the illegal drug trade, even as Congress is set to file an ethics complaint against the senator for alleged obstruction of justice. Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said her office is conducting a fact-finding inquiry of De Lima’s alleged drug connections. “Because there have been […]
(Eagle News) — For Justice Secretary, Vitaliano Aguirre II, the testimony of Kerwin Espinosa bears more weight than that of Ronnie Dayan as the latter seemed to be holding back a lot more information for fear of being implicated in the illegal drugs trade. In a press briefing on Friday, Aguirre said both witnesses have been placed under provisional witness protection program (WPP). But it is Kerwin, a suspected drug lord in Eastern Visayas, […]
(Eagle News) – Ronnie Dayan, the former driver-bodyguard and lover of Senator Leila de Lima, admitted that he received money from suspected Eastern Visayas drug lord, Kerwin Espinosa, at least five times, for the former Justice Secretary in 2014. This information, Dayan revealed, in the course of a press conference Tuesday night (November 22) at the House of Representatives in Quezon City after he was turned over by the Philippine National Police (PNP) Answering reporters’ questions […]
(Eagle News) — A Filipino politician on Friday, November 18, urged the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate and suspend Senator Leila de Lima, whose name had been repeatedly mentioned by several witnesses who have testified regarding her connections to the illegal drug trade. Greco Belgica, a former Manila City councilor, filed a formal complaint with the office of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales and asked her to suspend the lady senator for 90-days as the investigation on her alleged […]
