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Justice Secretary Aguirre files ethics complaint vs Senator Hontiveros

(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Monday filed  an ethics complaint against Senator Risa Hontiveros over her alleged violation of the Constitution when she publicly displayed photographs of a “private” exchange of messages between him and another. Aguirre filed the complaint after he lodged criminal charges for violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Law  against Hontiveros in connection with the same incident on Sept. 5 before the Pasay Prosecutors’ Office. “Yan ang pinakagrabeng nagawa ng […]

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Cop who claimed shooting of drug suspects in Catanduanes was state-sponsored recants; withdraws resignation from police force

(Eagle News) — The Catanduanes policeman who alleged the city’s chief of police and police director had asked him to deliver an “accomplishment of 5-10 deaths of drug personalities” has recanted his statement. Senator Panfilo Lacson, chair of the committee on public order and dangerous drugs, made the disclosure about P01 Vincent Tacorda’s recantation during his committee’s hearing on the deaths of Kian Loyd delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and another alleged to be Reynaldo de […]

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Taxi driver, another witness identify 2 Caloocan City cops who shot defenseless Carl Arnaiz

  (Eagle News) – The taxi driver, who was allegedly held up by teenager Carl Angelo Arnaiz, and another witness who allegedly saw the teenager’s killing both testified in a Senate hearing on Monday, October 2, that they saw two Caloocan City policemen shoot Arnaiz while he was kneeling with his hands raised. Tomas Bagcal said that Caloocan City cops PO1 Jeffrey Perez and PO1 Ricky Arquilita, shot the 19-year old former University of the […]

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Justice Secretary Aguirre files criminal raps vs Hontiveros

(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Monday filed criminal charges against Senator Risa Hontiveros for supposed violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Law. Aguirre personally filed the charges that stem from Hontiveros’ public display of what the justice secretary said were his private messages with a certain Jing during a Senate hearing on the death of Kian Loyd delos Santos. In the messages, Hontiveros said Aguirre urged former Rep. Jacinto Paras to file cases against […]

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Duterte accuses Deputy Ombudsman of “lying to his teeth” amid AMLC denial it gave Duterte family bank records to the anti-graft body

President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night accused Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang of “lying to his teeth” and “waving fabricated evidence.” President Duterte made the accusation after the Anti-Money Laundering Council itself denied it had provided the Ombudsman with a report on the Duterte family’s bank transactions, as claimed by Carandang. Carandang said in an interview that the report was used as a basis to launch a probe on the President’s family wealth. “Waving fabricated evidence, […]

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PHL gets $415.2-m loan for Metro Manila flood control project

The Philippines will receive a loan of $415.2 million from the World Bank and the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to help it solve chronic flooding in Metro Manila. The lenders will put up $207.6 million each for a $500-million project, with the Philippine government footing the balance, the banks said in a joint statement Friday. Over the next seven years, the government plans to rebuild or construct 56 stations to pump floodwaters from the coastal metropolis […]

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Trump accepts Duterte’s ASEAN summit invite

President Donald Trump has backed away from a threat to skip a summit with Southeast Asian leaders in the Philippines later this year, with the White House saying it had accepted an invitation from host Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement Friday, the White House said that Trump will visit Manila as part of a bumper November 3-14 tour of China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the US state of Hawaii. The announcement tees up a […]

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Sandiganbayan acquits former PRC Commissioner Po

(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Professional Regulation Commission Commissioner Alfredo Po of all the criminal charges filed against him in connection with what the Ombudsman said was an anomalous lease contract signed by the agency in 2012. The anti-graft court’s seventh division made the acquittal after it found the prosecution was unable to prove Po’s guilt “beyond reasonable doubt” in the charges of graft, direct bribery, robbery, and violation of the code of […]

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President Duterte: Trillanes closed bank accounts containing money “possibly used to destabilize gov’t” before signing waiver

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said Senator Antonio Trillanes IV closed his bank accounts and transferred the money–which he said was “possibly” used to “destabilize” the government— to other individuals before signing a waiver and going to Singapore to supposedly check those accounts. In an interview over state-run television, Duterte said Trillanes was able to close the accounts online at 10 p.m., on  September 8. Although the President did not say what these […]

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Panelo tells Ombudsman to follow rules on disclosure regarding ongoing probe on alleged Duterte accounts

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo reminded Over-All Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang to follow the Office of the Ombudsman’s own rules regarding premature disclosures of ongoing investigations of the Ombudsman, particularly the probe on the alleged bank account of President Rodrigo Duterte. Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said that Carandang forgot that the Ombudsman’s own regulation prohibited premature disclosure of its investigations. Panelo explained that this will not […]

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Panelo to Ombudsman: No one is intimidating you

(Eagle News) — Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo on Friday denied President Rodrigo Duterte was intimidating the Office of the Ombudsman, noting that it was the chief executive who welcomed a probe into his family’s wealth in the first place. “No one is intimidating the Ombudsman..(The President) is not intimidating the Ombudsman,” Panelo said when asked in a television interview for his reaction to the anti-graft body’s statement that it would not be intimidated […]

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President Duterte has evidence against Bamboo Triad, says Abella

QUEZON City, Philippines – Malacañang said that President Rodrigo Duterte will reveal evidence if needed, to prove that the Bamboo Triad, allegedly an international illegal drug trafficking group, was able to enter the Philippines. Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella made the statement in response to Taiwan’s challenge to prove that this Taiwanese group is the number one illegal drug supplier in the Philippines. Abella also said that President Duterte has sources. “He (Duterte) has very credible […]

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