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(Eagle News)–Lawyers Chel Diokno and Lorenzo Tañada III have asked the Department of Justice panel conducting a preliminary probe into the sedition charges filed against them and several others to stop the Office of the Solicitor General from representing the Philippine National Police, the complainant, and to sanction the OSG. In filing the omnibus motion that also sought to annul all previous actions of the OSG, Diokno and Tañada said the OSG misstated University of […]
VP a no-show, sends lawyer instead (Eagle News)–The Department of Justice special panel of prosecutors began its preliminary probe into the sedition charges filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and others on Friday, Aug. 9. This was a day after Robredo asked that the deadline for her submission of a counter-affidavit be delayed pending her receipt of the supposed evidence the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group has against her in connection with […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice panel probing the sedition complaint against Vice President Leni Robredo and others has set the first hearing this August. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said the hearing was scheduled on Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. Apart from Robredo, facing the charges also for libel, cyber libel, harboring a criminal and estafa over the Ang Totoong Narcolist videos against President Rodrigo Duterte’s family are Senator Leila de Lima, Antonio Trillanes IV, some […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday, May 9, welcomed the Ombudsman’s statement resigned Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte was the subject of its preliminary investigation, saying it was part of the anti-graft agency’s “constitutional mandate” to conduct such inquiries of public officials. “The scope of the Ombudsman’s powers is to investigate, to inquire into and to demand the production of documents involving transactions and contracts of the government where there is disbursement […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Kerwin Espinosa’s confession he was a drug dealer before a Senate hearing in 2016 could not be submitted to the Department of Justice prosecution panel as evidence against him because he retracted the same during the preliminary investigation. CIDG Director Roel Obusan said Espinosa denied the testimonies he made in his answer submitted to the first prosecution panel tasked to look into the drug charges filed against him, Peter Lim, […]
