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(Eagle News) — Police excesses and crimes are not isolated incidents, according to Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday, when he showed CCTV footages of cops planting drugs and stealing from their victims during an actual alleged police raid. During a senate inquiry on “tokhang for ransom,” Lacson, chair of the senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs which is conducting the probe, showed video evidence against rogue cops. The video footage showed the […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – At the hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel was pointed out by the housekeeper of the late Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo as one of the police personnel who entered the house of the late businessman and forcibly took Jee. Sta. Isabel denied the accusations while the Philippine National Police Chief Director-General Ronald dela Rosa said that they have sufficient […]
(Eagle News)– Senator Leila de Lima refused to confront or question alleged drug lord Kerwin Espinosa at the Senate hearing on Wednesday (November 23), after the latter claimed that De Lima received drug money from him. Kerwin claimed that he gave P8 million for De Lima’s senatorial campaign fund through her ex aide Ronnie Dayan. She then made a categorical blanker denial of his allegations. “Let me say this to my colleagues here, and everyone […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson confirmed that the Senate Committee on Public Order would conduct their hearing inside Camp Crame in Quezon City to hear the testimony of alleged Eastern Visayas drug lord Kerwin Espinosa. Because of security considerations, Lacson said Wednesday’s hearing at the PNP Conference Room would be open to media but not to the public.
(Eagle News) — “Premeditated.” That was how Senator Panfilo Lacson described the operation of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CODG) region 8 where Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa was killed in an alleged shootout after he allegedly resisted the police search Lacson, head of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, and the other senators who questioned the CIDG officials during the senate hearing on Thursday said there seemed to have […]
PNP Chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Monday disclosed his disappointment and frustration over tips that police officers who fail to solve extra judicial killings of drug personalities be cut of their duties. “Sana mag-order na si Presidente Duterte na itigil na ito (war on drugs),” Dela Rosa answered when asked by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV why police were unable to solve the slays. “Kami pagod na pagod na sa trabaho na ito. […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News Service) — Vice-President Jejomar Binay snubbed anew the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s probe on the allegedly overpriced Makati parking building II, saying he wanted to avoid setting a bad precedent. Binay, instead sent two representatives – his lawyer, Atty. JV Bautista, and Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco – to the senate hearing Thursday, Nov. 6, to the dismay of the senators in the committee. The Vice-President decided to fly to Cebu instead […]
Makati Mayor Junjun Binay will no longer attend the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee hearing, saying that they will file a jurisdictional challenge questioning the authority of said committee.
Here’s Eagle News reporter Meanne Corvera with an update on the ongoing hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee on the allegedly over-priced Makati building.
The Senate started its hearing on the state of the public transportation system of the country due to the recent MRT accident.
