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(Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon formally filed on Monday an ethics complaint against Senator Panfilo Lacson, who accused him of receiving a P100-million “pasalubong” when he was the newly installed Customs chief. Faeldon, who has been detained at the Office of the Sergeant at Arms since his surrender days ago after being cited in contempt by the Senate for his refusal to attend subsequent Senate blue ribbon committee hearings into the P6.4-billion […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday swiped back at former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, who has accused the senator’s son of being engaged in smuggling activities. “First, I have nothing to do with my son’s business,” he said in a statement. He added that there was “no smuggling of cement as it is not subject to Customs tariff and duties but (was) only subject to (Value Added Tax).” “My son said when I […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Vicente Sotto III and Panfilo Lacson are seeking a Senate investigation into what they said was a possible violation by some “covered institutions” of the Anti Money and Laundering Act in connection with the supposed “splitting” of Commission on Elections Chair Andres Bautista’s 35 bank accounts in one “small thrift bank.” Lacson and Sotto filed on Thursday Resolution No. 468 “directing” the Senate committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies to look […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe and her running-mate Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero visited the Iglesia Ni Cristo Central Office in Quezon City on Monday to make a courtesy call to the INC Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo. Poe, who is running as an independent, came to the INC office earlier than Escudero. Both were welcomed at the INC’s Bulwagan room by Brother Eduardo who heard the tandem’s platforms. […]
(Eagle News) – Former Senator Panfilo Lacson criticized Malacanang’s move to give the lead role of traffic management to the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) Lacson said the focus of the PNP-HPG should be on arresting erring motorists, and not on the management of traffic flow which should still be left to the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Lacson said the PNP-HPG could help in the management of traffic in EDSA, but disagreed […]
Former senator Panfilo Lacson made known his intention to run for the presidential elections on 2016, saying that several individuals and groups are asking him to run for the highest office in the land.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima will meet with Rehabilitation Czar Panfilo Lacson to compare their respective documents regarding the list made by alleged “pork barrel queen” Janet Lim Napoles. De Lima and Lacson are concerned about the consistency of the documents particularly on the names of those who were allegedly involved in the pork barrel scam.
Former senator and current rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson declared that he will not reveal names in the affidavit made by Janet Lim Napoles, adding that it is better to ask Napoles herself regarding the information in her affidavit.
According to the Napoles camp, the list of those involved in the pork barrel camp that is in the hands of former Senator and now Rehabilitation Czar Panfilo Lacson. They further added that when Jimmy Napoles gave the list to Lacson, Janet is still in the process of remembering those involved.
