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(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Thursday, Aug. 23, said authorities were exerting all efforts to locate Peter Lim and arrest him. “The police, the NBI, and other law enforcement agencies are exerting all efforts..,” Guevarra said. According to Guevarra, based on Bureau of Immigration records, Lim has not left the country since March. On Aug. 14, Makati City Regional Trial Court Branch 65 Acting Presiding Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos issued a warrant for the […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Aug. 23, urged Peter Lim to surrender. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the pronouncement days after Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 65 ordered his arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading. Lim’s co-accused are self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, Lovely Impal and Marcelo Adorco, among others. The charges against the group had been junked by a first panel of Department of Justice […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati City Regional Trial Court has reset the arraignment of self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa and his co-accused. Instead of Thursday, Aug. 2, Branch 64 Judge Gina M. Bibat-Palamos scheduled the arraignment of Espinosa, Peter Co, Lovely Impal, Marcelo Adorco and Ruel Malindangan to Aug. 29, after their lawyers said they would file a motion for reconsideration of the second Department of Justice panel that found probable cause for the filing of a conspiracy […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, July 19, said it was “very pleased” with the Department of Justice’s decision to indict Kerwin Espinosa and others. “The Palace is very pleased that the wheels of justice are turning to hold [them] accountable,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. In reversing the decision of a previous panel, the panel composed of Senior Assistant State Prosecutors Juan Pedro Navera, Anna Noreen Devanadera and Prosecution Attorney Herbert Calvin Abugan […]
(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 […]
