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"If indeed there is a cover-up as the victim AD Castor alleges, then this would fall under Grave Misconduct," the QC Peoples Law Enforcement Board said in a text message. 

EXPELLED. National Press Club (NPC) president Paul Gutierrez announces the expulsion from NPC's roster of members of Jaime Aquino, former provincial correspondent of the Manila Times, during a joint press conference at the NPC Building in Intramuros, Manila on Wednesday (Feb. 16, 2022). Gutierrez said Aquino and his group in Pangasinan have been accused of manufacturing bogus rape cases that led to the incarceration for nine months of Lopez, Quezon councilor Arkie Manuel Yulde. (PNA photo by...

Sandiganbayan (File photo) MANILA - The Sandiganbayan anti-graft court has acquitted the former mayor of San Francisco, Quezon and two municipal officers in graft charges filed by a disgruntled employee over the non-payment of his year-end bonus in 2014. In a 71-page decision written by Associate Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang and released Friday, the Third Division acquitted former mayor Joselito Alega, human resources management head Cesar Rocas, and municipal accountant Gerardo Cerrudo who were...

Published January 23, 2021, 11:31 AM Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Commissioner Greco Belgica, his brother Anti-Red Tape Authority Director General Jeremiah Belgica, and four others are facing a complaint for graft before the Office of the Ombudsman due to the alleged irregular application of a dredging permit. Citizens Crime Watch Association Inc. (CCWAI) President Diego Magpantay filed the complaint against them and ARTA Deputy Director General Ernesto Perez, Department of Pu...

PhilHealth officials face graft raps at Ombudsman over reimbursement scheme enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 12) — The National Bureau of Investigation has filed a new complaint against former Philippine Health Insurance Corp. chief Ricardo Morales and other PhilHealth officials before the Office of the Ombudsman over irregularities in the release of the state insurers funds. The NBI on Monday recommended the charges for alleged violation of the Anti-G...

Police Staff Sgt. Jonel Nuezca, the policeman who gunned down a 52-year-old woman and her son at close range in Paniqui, Tarlac, last Dec. 20, and whose video went viral online, has been dismissed from the service.

Published December 29, 2020, 4:50 PM The Office of the Ombudsman has required the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to submit the status of the implementation of the preventive suspension order it earlier issued against an official of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA). In a letter to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, the Ombudsman noted that it has been receiving reports that MCIAA General Manager Steve Dicdican continues to work despite the order for his prevent...

Published December 18, 2020, 3:56 PM The officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) have once again been slapped with a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) for red-tagging media organizations and its members and linking them to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA), and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). (Altermidya Network) Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr., Presidential Communic...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 17) — Ombudsman Samuel Martires on Thursday ordered the six-month preventive suspension of Steve Dicdican, CEO and general manager of Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority, for allegedly violating the Anti-Dummy Law by allowing foreigners to run the airports operation. "I ordered the preventive suspension of Atty. Steve Dicdican, general manager of the Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority for Grave Misconduct, Gross Neglect of Du...

(MANILA BULLETIN) Dicdican has been ordered suspended for six months without pay in order to prevent any possible tampering of evidence, harassment of witnesses, or interference. He is likewise prohibited from entering his office throughout the duration of his suspension. On April 2014, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and MCIAA awarded MCIA’s management and operation to GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) under a 25-year concession for P14.4 billion. The concession was for t...