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(Eagle News) — A former police chief inspector who has been imprisoned at the New Bilibid Prisons since 2004, revealed that the drug trade at the NBP became rampant starting 2012 when Leila de Lima was already the Justice Secretary. At the start of the hearing of the House of Representatives on the illegal drug operations at the national penitentiary, former Chief Inspector Rodolfo Magleo, said that there had been a P50,000 quota a […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — In his news conference conducted in Davao City Sunday, President Rodrigo Duterte remained adamant in pursuing his expose of Senator Leila De Lima and added that he holds wiretaps and ATM records that will serve as proof that her driver-bodyguard had transactions with drug syndicates in the New Bilibid Prison.
QUEZON City, Philippines – In a manifesto submitted to Acting Justice Secretary Emmanuel Caparas, several high-profile inmates in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) expressed their concern regarding the alleged conspiracy to kill incoming President Rodrigo Duterte and incoming Philipine National Police Chief Ronald de la Rosa. According to the inmates, the information was intentionally leaked to the public to cover up the eventuality if they are ever killed by corrupt prison officials. The high-profile inmates […]
No visitors are allowed in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) after the explosion of a grenade in the maximum security prison. According to Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, it depends on the head of the Bureau of Corrections if their visitation rights will be returned. Said visitation rights were suspended due to the refusal of inmates to cooperate in the investigation.
After three separate raids, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima decided to conduct daily inspections at the New Bilibid Prison. Said raids revealed various contraband.
(Eagle News Service) — The senate is set to review the possibility of reviving death penalty in the country. In an interview with senate reporters, Senator Vicente Sotto III has again revived his call for the re-imposition of the death penalty in the country, following the exposed luxurious prison lifestyle of several convicted drug lords in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). The senator, however, said that he will amend his bill that imposes death penalty […]
(Eagle News Service) — Justice Secretary Leila de Lima asked officials of the New Bilibid Prisons, including the commander of the jailguards in NBP’s maximum security compound, to explain how the drug inmates had managed to live luxuriously while inside the prison compound. De Lima asked NBP head Superintendent Franklin Bucayu for the list of all the assigned officers in the NBP’s maximum security compound, to determine who should be blamed for the illegal activities […]
Manila, Philippines – Department of Justice Secretary Leila De Lima visits NBP to personally investigate the ball-game-turned-riot in Muntinlupa City where at least 2 inmates were dead and one another one was wounded. In an interview with De Lima, she said “Batang City Jail” and “Sputnik Gang” were engaged in a violent brawl in the middle of a volleyball game between two inmates around 8:00 in the morning in a basketball court of NBP (New […]
