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By Rey E. Requejo Manila Standard Today JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima on Thursday said former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was not yet off the hook over the allegations she cheated in the May 2004 presidential elections even if the Ombudsman had dropped the bribery and graft charges against. De Lima said Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales dropped the charges on the basis of Read More …
By Arlie O. Calalo The Daily Tribune The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed for lack of evidence the criminal charges against former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in connection with the May 2004 elections held in key provinces in Mindanao. Aside from the former President, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales also yesterday found no sufficient proof to pin down the six other respondents, including Read More …
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc The Philippine Star Two National Police generals reportedly are being considered to replace sacked NBI director Magtanggol Gatdula. Huh, pulis na naman? Neither of the two nominees, one retired, the other in active duty, were able to curb the rash of murders by gunmen riding motorcycles in tandem. Gun-for-hire has been thriving of late as a cottage industry. Every week someone Read More …
BY RITCHIE A. HORARIO MANILA TIMES THE Senate blue ribbon committee on Thursday found Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, the husband of former President Gloria Arroyo, liable of corruption over an anomalous helicopter deal with the Philippine National Police (PNP). After six hearings, the panel, headed by Sen. Teofisto Guingona 3rd, came out with its Committee Report 74, detailing the whole story on the PNP’s purchase Read More …
By David Dizon abs-cbnNEWS.com MANILA, Philippines – Former President Joseph Estrada made light of Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s refusal to be airlifted from St. Luke’s in Taguig to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMCC) in Quezon City, saying she might be afraid to use the second-hand helicopters sold by her husband to the Philippine National Police (PNP) as brand new. “Siguro baka natatakot siya sa Read More …
By Angie M. Rosales The Daily Tribune Former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo should defer his plans to travel abroad and face the possible filing of charges against him in connection with the alleged anomalous helicopter deal with the Philippine National Police (PNP) in 2009, blue ribbon chairman and Sen. Teofisto “TG” Guingona yesterday said. “I urge Mr. Arroyo to stay in the country Read More …
By Gerry Baldo and Arlie O. Calalo The Daily Tribune Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales adopted the report of a fact-finding panel she formed recommending graft charges to be filed against former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo and several others in connection with the allegedly anomalous purchase of second-hand helicopters by the Philippine National Police (PNP) two years ago. The five-man panel’s report sought the conduct Read More …
COMMONSENSE By Marichu A. Villanueva The Philippine Star Last week, Senators Teofisto “TG” Guingona Jr., Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, and Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III went all the way to the Office of the Ombudsman in Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City. Before full-blown media coverage, the three senators went through the motions of formal filing of graft charges against former first gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo and 18 other Read More …
BY JUN RAMIREZ MANILA BULLETIN MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has given a task force, formed to investigate the graft complaint against former First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo and several others linked to the questionable helicopter deal with the Philippine National Police (PNP) in 2009, one week within which to submit its findings. Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales instructed the task force Read More …
By Angie M. Rosales The Daily Tribune It’s ex-FG or former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo who is the real owner of the helicopters passed off as brand new and sold to the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a spurious P105-million transaction in 2009, a report on a Senate probe of the anomalous deal indicated yesterday. Such is among the findings made by the Read More …