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By Charlie V. Manalo The Daily Tribune Farmer groups call for cash distribution The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Kaisahang Pambansa ng mga Magsasaka sa Koprahan (Koprahan) yesterday warned the Aquino government against using the coco levy funds in its so-called anti-poverty programs. The groups also pushed the immediate cash distribution of the coco levy funds to small coconut farmers, Read More …
Calling A Spade… Solita Collas-Monsod BusinessWorld There is universal outrage that Manny Pacquiao was robbed of his boxing championship. Even his opponent reportedly expressed surprise when he was declared the winner of the match. The promotor of the match, who apparently manages both Pacquiao and Bradley, wants the decision investigated by the Nevada Attorney General, just to make sure there was no hanky panky as Read More …
Source: GMA News Philippine National Bank (PNB) director Atty. Estelito Mendoza asserted Wednesday that the Sandiganbayan rejection of the forfeiture case on the Allied Bank shares his client, Lucio Tan, paves the way for the merger of PNB and Allied Bank. “He (Lucio Tan) trusts that with this decision of the Sandiganbayan, the Central Bank, the PDIC and the SEC will see their way clear Read More …
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr. Philippine Daily Inquirer Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Two lawmakers have wondered why President Benigno Aquino III’s allies were suddenly gun-shy about suspending former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the House of Representatives after they had acted so swiftly to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and Chief Justice Renato Corona. Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) party-list Representative Antonio Tinio said the Read More …
By Macon Ramos-Araneta Manila Standard Today THE Ombudsman has established a partnership with the Commission on Audit (COA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to hasten the investigation and prosecution of corruption cases involving government officials and employees. Ombudswoman Conchita Carpio Morales and COA Chairperson Ma. Gracia Pulido Tan signed an agreement to form a joint investigation team for the purpose, after the Ombudsman signed Read More …
By Leila B. Salaverria Philippine Daily Inquirer The Sandiganbayan First Division has ordered businessman Herminio Disini, a crony of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, to surrender $50.6 million in commissions that he received for helping two foreign firms obtain the contract to build the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in 1974. The antigraft court said the commissions were “ill-gotten” and that Disini should reconvey Read More …
By Aurea Calica and Czeriza Valencia The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – The government will appeal the Sandiganbayan dismissal of the P51-billion damage suit against the late President Ferdinand Marcos, his widow Imelda, and several others. Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz said that the anti-graft court seemed oblivious to the political reality during martial law in deciding to clear the Marcoses, several officials of his Read More …
This is a case of “justice delayed, justice denied.” It took the Sandiganbayan 25 years to issue its ruling! Once again, the victims of this miscarriage of justice are the Filipino people. This ruling is the “smoking gun” evidence that the judicial system is broken and needs to be reformed if Philippine democracy is to survive. — PERRY DIAZ Court junks P51-B suit vs Marcoses Read More …
BY KIMBERLY TAN GMA News (Updated 4:10 p.m.) The Sandiganbayan 4th Division has issued a hold departure order (HDO) against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, her husband Jose Miguel, and two former officials of her administration in connection with graft charges filed against them. Former Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza, and former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos were also nemed in the HDO, GMA News TV’s Read More …
By Gerry Baldo and Jason Faustino The Daily Tribune When it rains, it pours, particularly on former president Gloria Arroyo who aside from receiving another graft charge yesterday for an exotic offense called illegal frequencies trading, has also in a strange stroke of luck, had her three graft charges earlier filed by the Ombudsman raffled off to the Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division headed by Associate Justice Read More …