MANILA-The Department of Justice (DOJ) said former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Officer-In-Charge (OIC) Eric B. Distor will revert to his previous post as assistant director and may be named to an assignment in the agency by NBI Director Medardo G. De Lemos. Former president Rodrigo Duterte appointed Distor as NBI OIC following the retirement of former Director Dante Gierran on February 22, 2020. Distor held the position of senior deputy director. In a letter to the NBI Director, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said "the position of senior deputy director is deemed invalid, ineffective and non-existent as it still does not have qualification standards (QS) duly approved and confirmed by the Civil Service Commission (CSC)." "Being a position created in excess of the authorized staffing pattern in the NBI under RA 10867 (NBI Reorganization and Modernization Act), the position of senior deputy director (SDD) is now vacant," Remulla
FORMER officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Rafael Ragos, another witness in the drug cases filed against Senator Leila de Lima, has executed an affidavit recanting his statements implicating the latter in the illegal-drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa when she was justice secretary. Ragos’s…