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(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested a woman believed to be part of a group whose members pose as agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency for extortion activities. NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin said Jai Sunshine Chua was arrested in an operation in Cainta, Rizal, on March 9. Posing as PDEA agents, Chua and her alleged nine cohorts identified as JR Ordonez, Anthony Ordonez, Michael Corpuz, Junjun Patawi, Ryan Bonn Singson […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to locate the recruiter of deceased overseas Filipino worker Joanna Demafelis. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the President wants to locate the recruiters of Demafelis in order to ascertain whether they have criminal, civil and administrative liabilities. “PRRD asked NBI to summon them,” Roque said. The order came after the employers of Demafelis were arrested on Friday night. […]
(Eagle News) — Another personality charged in connection with the P6.4-billion shabu shipment mess has been arrested, while another two are slated to surrender, the National Bureau of Investigation said on Friday. Initial information provided by the National Bureau of Investigation said Eirene May Tatad was nabbed in Iloilo. Tatad will be brought to Manila for the return of the warrant of arrest issued by the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46, the NBI said. […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The National Bureau of Investigation has served a warrant of arrest against one of the personalities implicated in the P6.4-billion shabu shipment mess. The arrest warrant was served against self-confessed fixer Mark Taguba in his detention cell in the Senate, where he has been in protective custody since last year, when Senate hearings on corruption in the Bureau of Customs started. Earlier, the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation on Friday announced the arrest of a fake dentist in Caloocan City. NBI Director Dante Gierran said Ronalyn Cruz-Tan was nabbed on Thursday after she performed a dental procedure on an undercover operative in her clinic. He said her arrest stems from a complaint lodged Dr. Ariel Go, chair of the Anti-Illegal Practice Committee of the Philippine Dental Association, on December 2017. Go alleged Cruz-Tan was engaged […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The National of Bureau of Investigation gave Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa 10 days to answer the cyber-libel complaint filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng. The NBI issued the directive on the day Ressa and her lawyer went to its headquarters after she was subpoenaed in connection with the complaint filed over a Rappler story published in May 2012. The Rappler report written by Reynaldo Santos said the businessman […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The widow of a slain Islamist militant leader will be charged for allegedly using social media to recruit Islamic State sympathizers to join a five-month siege of a southern city, Philippine authorities said Friday. Hundreds of local and foreign gunmen who had pledged allegiance to IS rampaged through Marawi, the principal Islamic city in the mainly Catholic Philippines, starting in May — sparking the nation’s longest urban war that claimed more […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police- Anti-Kidnapping Group on Wednesday, November 29, urged the National Bureau of Investigation to come forward and prove what it said was the innocence of its agents in the kidnapping of a Korean businessman in Angeles City, Pampanga, instead of threatening to sue the police. “Now, kung sila ay anghel lahat, the more dapat na they come forward. Pumunta sila dito, dalhin ang mga taong ito. Kung anghel ang […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Department of Justice has tasked the National Bureau of Investigation to look into the allegations of malversation filed against former President Benigno Aquino III in connection with the alleged anomalous use of funds under the Disbursement Acceleration Program, and other alleged anomalies related to that. Through Department Order 749, Aguirre directed the NBI to form a special task force for the purpose of looking into the allegations contained […]
(Eagle News) – The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested a woman who allegedly recruits foreigners to join terrorist groups in Mindanao. Karen Aiza Hamidon, 36, was arrested in her house in Taguig City last October 11 by operatives of the NBI Counter Terrorism Division. The NBI found 296 posts made by the suspect. It said they were inciting rebellion in Marawi City.
A Filipino suspect in a thwarted jihadist plot targetting New York City transferred money from the Philippines to other suspects to carry out the attacks, saying he could do this without attracting too much attention. A statement sent by the United States Embassy in Manila quoted messages sent by Russel Salic to two others involved in the plot in which he described terror laws in the Philippines as “not strict” in comparison to countries such […]
Three people—including a Filipino—have been charged with involvement in planned jihadist attacks on targets including New York’s subway and Times Square, in 2016. But an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent helped thwart the plot of Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, Talha Haroon, and Russel Salic of the Philippines. The attacks were supposed to be carried out in the name of the Islamic State group during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, American state prosecutors said in a statement on […]
