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(Eagle News) – The VIP service for a fee at the Bureau of Immigration (BI) started in 2016 when the Department of Justice removed the overtime pay for immigration officers, according to an immigration officer who testified at a Senate hearing on Thursday, Feb. 20. Immigration Officer 1 Allison Chiong also named the current and former immigration personnel who are involved in the operations, also known as “pastillas” scheme since money paid for BI officers […]
(Eagle News) – The Senate will continue its hearing on the so-called “ninja cops” or policemen who recycle by re-selling the illegal drugs they confiscate in operations. During the hearing, Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, is expected to name these so-called ‘ninja cops”, specifically those earlier named by former Criminal Investigation and Detection chief and now Baguio City mayor Benjamin Magalong in an executive session. Philippine National Police chief Police […]
(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto believes the three Bureau of Corrections officials who were supposed to testify to corruption in the bureau in the Senate on Thursday, Sept. 12, backed out at the last minute for fear they would be killed. Sotto noted the three backed out right after the killing of prison guard Edgardo Ferrer on the day of the hearing. According to Sotto, based on information he received, Ferrer, the father of a […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Panfilo Lacson cancelled the supposed hearing on Friday, May 10, at the Senate where Peter Joemel Advincula alias “Bikoy” has been invited following Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto’s revelations that this supposed witness had been making the same allegations in 2016 against the officials of then of the Aquino administration. “Senate President Sotto said it all. We are now recalling the letter of invitation sent to Advincula yesterday. Notices will […]
(Eagle News) – The Senate has set on Friday morning, May 10, its investigation of the allegations made by Peter Joemel Advincula who claims to be the “Bikoy” in the series of videos that had made allegations linking members of the family of President Rodrigo Duterte to the illegal drug trade. Senator Panfilo Lacson, the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, said the hearing is initially set on Friday, […]
(Eagle News) — A subpoena will be sent to Cocoy Dayao who is behind the blog “Silent No More.” The Senate committee on public information and mass media on Tuesday said also to be summoned were Google and Facebook. Senator Grace Poe made the announcement upon resumption of the panel’s hearings on fake news. Dayao has criticized seven senators through his blog after they refused to sign a resolution condemning supposed extrajudicial killings in the […]
(Eagle News) — Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said he would attend a Senate probe into the Navy’s P15.7-billion frigate acquisition project if the inquiry pushes through and if he is invited. Go made the statement in a brief text message to reporters. Opposition senators have filed Resolution No. 584 calling for a probe into the acquisition of two frigates for use by the Navy. Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano said Go interfered in […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Monday filed an ethics complaint against Senator Risa Hontiveros over her alleged violation of the Constitution when she publicly displayed photographs of a “private” exchange of messages between him and another. Aguirre filed the complaint after he lodged criminal charges for violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Law against Hontiveros in connection with the same incident on Sept. 5 before the Pasay Prosecutors’ Office. “Yan ang pinakagrabeng nagawa ng […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Director Ronald dela Rosa denied President Rodrigo Duterte had a hand in the reinstatement of Supt. Marvin Marcos and 18 of his men, saying the chief executive’s public pronouncements did not have an effect on his decision. “Your Honor, kung basehan natin yung pinagsasabi ni Presidente, your Honor, it has not affected our decision. Because for the record your honor, he (the President) did not call me up to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Former Transportation Secretary Jun Abaya denied there was any anomaly in the procurement of new trains and in the maintenance contract of the Metro Rail Transit. This despite Abaya indirectly admitting that PH Trams, who became the MRT-3’s maintenance contractor for nine months in 2012-2013, won the contract even if it was undercapitalized and newly incorporated. During the Senate Committee on public services hearing chaired by Senator Grace Poe on Monday, he was quick to add, however, […]
Hahadlangan ng Department of Justice ang anumang hakbang upang makadalo si Senadora Leila De Lima sa pagdinig ng Senado ukol sa death penalty bill. Sinabi ni DOJ Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II, limitado lamang ang mga karapatan at pribelihiyo nito dahil nakakulong ito. Una nang iginiit ni De Lima noong mga nakaraang linggo na hangad niyang makadalo sa mga deliberasyon sa ilang mahahalagang panukala dahil trabaho umano niya ito bilang mambabatas kahit pa siya ay nakakulong. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News)– Self-proclaimed Davao Death Squad (DDS) and former SPO3 Arturo Lascañas on Monday, March 6 apologized to Senate for his false testimony during the previous Senate hearing regarding the DDS conducted last year. “First, I’d like to ask for an apology and understanding of what I had said when I was invited (by) this honorable committee,” the retired cop said. Lascañas take back his October testimony and alleged that the DDS […]
