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Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi on Friday said he was ready to face charges after a Senate resolution recommending the filing of lawsuits against him and other officials reached the Office of the Ombudsman. ....
SENATORS crossed partylines in adopting a Senate Resolution triggered by Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian’s endorsement of a report recommending the filing of “criminal and administrative charges” against Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and 11 other ranking Department of Energy (DoE) officials over the $565-million sale to UC Malampaya of the 45-percent stake… ....
In his privilege speech, Gatchalian said Cusi and key officials of the DOE are “criminally and administratively liable for graft, gross neglect of duty, and grave misconduct and should immediately resign from their posts,” “for railroading the approval of the sale of participating interest of Chevron in Malampaya gas field.” ....
The operator of the Malampaya gas field will need to drill one well next year, but that will not be a precondition for license extension of the facility’s service contract (SC) 38.
A document from the Department of Energy (DOE) furnished to the media stated that the SC 38 consortium currently le ....
Published May 25, 2021, 3:58 PM Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm The prisoner who allegedly dictated the drug deal that led to the “misencounter” between the operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) last February in Quezon City has been “placed in isolation,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday, May 25. DOJ Undersecretary Deo L. Marco said inmate Melvin Magallon, also known as Pawpaw, has been placed in isolation at the Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm (SPPF) in Occidental Mindoro where he is imprisoned. “Naka-isolate sya sa isang cell. Mag-isa lang sya doon (He has been isolated. He is alone there),” said Marco who supervises the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) for the DOJ. ....