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(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has turned over seized and forfeited storage devices and video tapes, among other items, to the Optical Media Board for disposal. The bureau said the 30 boxes of video tapes, 2,400 One Time Password devices, sim cards and blank bank cards were given to the OMB on October 29. Most of them came from Hong Kong and China, and were concealed in vacuum cleaners and speakers. Customs personnel at Clark […]
Is sentenced to six to eight years in jail (Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has found former Optical Media Board chair Ronnie Ricketts guilty of graft. The anti-graft court sentenced the former actor to six to eight years imprisonment after ruling he gave undue advantage to to Sky High Marketing Corporation when he ordered its pirated compact discs released a day after his men confiscated them without filing charges in 2010. Ricketts can also no longer […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a new Ombudsman. The President said on Thursday, July 26, that he has signed the appointment papers of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Martires, who succeeded Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales who retired on the same day. “He is bright and he is a fair man,” the President said. The President also refused to give Martires any marching order, noting that the former SC associate justice “belong(ed) to a different […]
