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(BOC) The cases were lodged late last month by the Bureau’s Action Team Against Smugglers (BATAS) before the Department of Justice (DOJ). The first case is against Mountain View Multi-Purpose Cooperative for the alleged unlawful importation and misdeclaration of various agricultural products, with a total value of P7,252,561.85 on July 13, 2020 at the Port of Subic. MBS Cargo Movers Co. was also charged for the alleged unlawful importation and misdeclaration of cigarettes, with a total value ...

Sandiganbayan (MANILA BULLETIN)  Also acquitted in a decision written by Associate Justice Kevin Narce B. Vivero were Edilberto V. Bongon, head of Pili Public Safety and Emergency Management Office (PIPSEMO), and Police Cpl. Joel B. Berja. They were charged with violation of Section 8 (c) in relation to Section 11 of Republic Act No. 8041, the National Water Crisis Act of 1995, and Article 286 of the Revised Penal Code on grave coercion. The criminal complaint filed against them stated that t...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → March → 1 → Detained Lumad teacher transferred to another facility without lawyers’ knowledge Detained Lumad teacher transferred to another facility without lawyers’ knowledge By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – Volunteer teacher of the Lumad bakwit school Roshelle Porcadilla has been taken out of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) without the knowledge of her lawyers and family, according to the Save Our Schools Network. Kabataan Part...

March 1, 2021 De Lima on Prosecutions presentation of self-confessed drug lord witness vs her: Dereliction of duty or subornation of perjury? Opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima has questioned whether the Prosecution team committed subornation of perjury or dereliction of duty when they allowed convicted murderer Joel Capones to be presented in court as their witness against her. In a Manifestation before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 256 dated Feb. 24, De Lima, through her ...

Published February 24, 2021, 10:53 AM The Philippine National Police (PNP) has accused the New People’s Army (NPA) of abducting four parents of some of the Lumad minors whom authorities claimed to have rescued from the retreat house of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. (Photo by: Juan Carlo de Vela / FILE PHOTO) PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said the four parents were among the Ata Manobo parents who were supposed to be met by local policemen in Talaingod town of Davao del Norte for ...

The Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation said there is no need for a new law to penalize red-tagging, citing legal remedies under existing laws are already sufficient.

By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, MA. ANGELICA GARCIA, GMA News Published February 25, 2021 12:44am The Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation on Wednesday said there is no need for a new law to penalize red-tagging as there were enough provisions under other judicial remedies for such cases. “[T]here is no need to pass a law that penalizes red-tagging because recourse is already provided under the Revised Penal Code, Civil Code, special laws, and ...

MANILA, Feb. 18 -- In line with the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) mandate to protect the country’s borders from the entry of illegal and smuggled goods, the Bureau’s Action Team Against Smugglers (BATAS), filed criminal cases before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against two (2) importers for the alleged misdeclaration and illegal importation of counterfeit and prohibited goods. The first case is against YJC International Corporation for alleged unlawful importation and misdeclaration of 1,59...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → February → 18 → Prosecutor junks charges vs 10 Marikina relief volunteers Prosecutor junks charges vs 10 Marikina relief volunteers By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – The Marikina Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the charges against the 10 relief volunteers who were arrested on May 1 last year.  Collectively called as Marikina 10, the relief volunteers were accosted by the police while conducting a feeding program at Barangay Industrial...

(JUAN CARLOS VELA / MANILA BULLETIN) Brig. Gen. Ildrebrandi Usana, spokesman of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said those charged were presented for Inquest proceedings before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Davao del Norte at the Hall of Justice, Capitol Site, Mankilam, Tagum City via video conference. Those charged were two officials (datu) of the Manobo tribe, two teachers and three adult Lumad students, one of them was Chad Booc, a Computer Science of University of the Phili...