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(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the public’s right to know transcended whatever rights to privacy and presumption of innocence that national and local candidates have, as it justified the government’s plan to release next week the so-called narco list of politicians. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that it is also wrong for candidates involved in illegal activities to stop the release of the narco-list which was prepared with the help of wiretapped information […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, March 5, vouched for the integrity of the government’s narco-list, saying foreign governments had supplied the Philippines with intel through wiretapping. “Ang magagaling diyan Israel, magaling diyan America, Russia, China….Kung tayo lang, eh wala, kopong-kopong pa yata iyong mga instrumento natin,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, while the Anti-Wiretapping Law considers wiretapping an illegal act without the authorization by a court, no law says the […]
(Eagle News) — Over 60 politicians who figure in the government’s narco-list are gunning for reelection in the May elections, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino said. According to Aquino, 64, in particular, filed their certificates of candidacy for the upcoming polls. He said there were 82 names in the narco-list. Aquino said, however, that there may be more than the 82 engaged in illegal drug activities. In a radio interview, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said […]
(Eagle News) — The narco-list of candidates allegedly engaged in drug-related activities may be released by Interior Secretary Eduardo Año next week. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who gave a radio interview on Tuesday, March 5. According to Panelo, the plan was to release the list and file administrative and criminal charges against those on the list at the same time. “Sabi ni Secretary Año , inihahanda na yung mga ififile na kaso,” Panelo […]
(Eagle News)–The release of the so-called narco-list ahead of the elections is the “call” of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Department of the Interior and Local Government, the Commission on Elections said on Monday, March 4. “If someone wants to release the narco list, then that is their call entirely. Wala po kaming.. hindi po kami involved diyan,” Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said. Comelec chair Sheriff Abbas said the release of the list […]
(Eagle News)—A Maguindanao town mayor who was in President Rodrigo Duterte’s narco-list has been arrested by authorities. But Mayor Norodin Franco Salazar of Datu Salibo was arrested not for his alleged illegal drug activities but over murder charges. He was arrested by the police upon his arrival at the Cotabato airport. Duterte first revealed the names on his narco-list in public in 2016. Upon his assumption in office, he also revealed the names of then-current […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Dec. 18, said it was Mar Roxas who ordered former police general Vicente Loot killed. “I did not order the ambush. It was Roxas. Roxas ordered his ambush, not me,” Duterte said in Visayan. On May 18, unidentified men opened fire at Loot and his family who had just arrived in a wharf in Daanbantayan, Cebu, where the former general is mayor. They survived the attack. President Duterte has […]
(Eagle News) –Several policemen have been relieved over the killing of Ronda, Cebu Mayor Mariano Blanco in his office in the municipal hall located only a few meters from the police station. Relieved were Senior Insp. Jay Soto Palcon, chief of police of Ronda, and at least eight of his men. The dismissal came days after Blanco was shot dead by unidentified men in his office. Blanco had been included by President Rodrigo Duterte in his list […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, July 5, said Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili was involved in a land dispute with a former general before he was killed. “Medyo matagal tagal na rin. I just don’t know kung taon na yan pero it’s going on actually before the incident. Ibig sabihin nangyari na long before na nangyari itong shooting,” Albayalde said. Albayalde, however, could not […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, July 3, vowed a thorough investigation into the killing of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote. “We assure everyone that we would discharge the state obligation for every murder. We will spare no effort in getting to the bottom of this latest violent crime,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. He said the Palace was “confident that (Philippine National Police) Chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde, would be able […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Monday, July 2, said the police were looking at the possibility the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili had something to do with his implementation of a “walk of shame campaign” in the city. Albayalde made the statement as he announced the creation of a Special Investigation Task Group that will look into the killing during the city’s flag-raising ceremony early […]
(Eagle News)– Daanbantayan, Cebu Mayor Vicente Loot had to be rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, May 30, after a gun that he had left tucked in his pants accidentally discharged. A police report said Loot had come from a vigil of a supporter in Barangay Lanao when the incident took place at 8:40 p.m. The report said Loot sat on the weapon, which discharged a bullet that hit his left leg. The incident took […]
