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(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the reported sale of hospital passes to inmates at the New Bilibid Prison. The order came following a GMA news report that said the passes were sold by BuCor officers to inmates who wish to temporarily get out of jail. The report said the fee included a medical record that would make it appear that the inmate is sick and should […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday, Sept. 9, revealed some inmates at the New Bilibid Prison were “openly posting” on Facebook. Lacson revealed this during the fourth joint Senate panel hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, after the Bureau of Corrections said it was strict about banning cellphones for inmates in the national penitentiary. Chief Supt. Maria Fe Marquez, director of the BuCor Directorate for Reformation, said cellphones were the number one contraband seized […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday, Aug. 30, said three more drug lords were released due to the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law or Republic Act 10592. In an interview over radio dzbb, Lacson said a Taiwanese drug lord was released from the Davao Penal Colony, while the other two were released from Palawan. He said the three were apart from the five Chinese drug lords who were released from the New Bilibid Prison in […]
(Eagle News)–The camp of the recently arrested co-accused in the drug-related cases filed against Senator Leila de Lima has denied the allegations against him. The lawyer of Jose Adrian Dera, alias Jad de Vera himself issued the denial when his client was presented to the media at the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Manila hours after he was arrested in his house in Barangay Balibago, Pampanga around 5:30 a.m. Dera, who had been in […]
(Eagle News)–A co-accused of Senator Leila de Lima in two drug-related cases was arrested on Friday, Aug. 16. NBI director Ferdinand Lavin said Jose Adrian Dera, who had gone into hiding for two years following the charges filed against him, was nabbed by the National Bureau of Investigation in Pampanga. The charges were in connection with his alleged role as De Lima’s and former Bureau of Corrections director Franklin Bucayu’s bagman in the illegal drug […]
(Eagle News) – Visiting privileges of inmates nationwide, including their recreational activities such as having basketball games, were cancelled by Bureau of Corrections chief Directo General Nicanor Faeldon effective Tuesday, March 5. This was after a prisoner was discovered making drug transactions through wifi connections inside the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa by the Cebu City police which traced to the NBP inmate the source of the 28 kilos of shabu valued at P190.4 million. […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Corrections to probe the alleged illegal drug activities of an inmate serving his sentence at the New Bilibid Prison, and to file the necessary charges against those who may be allowing the same. In directing the two bureaus to conduct a case build-up against Rustico Ygot in Department Order No. 3, Guevarra cited Republic Act No. 10867 […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, Feb. 24, slammed anew the continued detention of Senator Leila de Lima for drug charges. “That a Senator of the Republic, an outspoken critic of the administration, and a relentless crusader against extrajudicial killings, can languish in detention for two years on drug charges, despite the glaring absence of physical evidence, and on the mere say-so of convicted drug dealers currently serving prison sentences in the national penitentiary, […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, Feb. 1, again refused to enter a plea in a drug-related case filed against her in a Muntinlupa court. This prompted the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 205 to enter a not-guilty plea on her behalf. De Lima, who is detained in Camp Crame, faces other drug-related cases in other Muntinlupa courts. She was charged in connection with her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade in […]
(Eagle News)– Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday, Nov. 7, said that as far as he knew, no convicted person has been used as a state witness against Senator Leila de Lima. Guevarra made the comment after De Lima filed charges for negligence in prosecution, toleration of criminal offenses and for violations of Section 3 of Republic Act No. 3019, otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act against him and his predecessor Vitaliano Aguirre “for […]
(Eagle News)–The Malolos Regional Trial Court Branch 15 has junked retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan’s bid to block his transfer to the New Bilibid Prison. The court dismissed Palparan’s motion to hold the implementation of the mittimus or commitment order, citing SC-OCA circular no.163-2013 which directs all trial court judges to cause the immediate transfer of convicted persons to the NBP, regardless of the pendency of a motion for reconsideration or an appeal. Earlier, […]
(Eagle News) — Resigned Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday, June 7, said the Supreme Court decision that denied with finality detained Senator Leila de Lima’s plea for the arrest warrant issued against her to be nullified only shows that her case was “not of political persecution” as some claimed. “The SC’s decision on the motion for reconsideration of Senator Leila de Lima affirmed what we all knew along. Her arrest on drug charges indeed […]
