The Department of Justice gave former Chief Justice Renato Corona up to Friday to face the panel handling the tax evasion case filed against him by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has formed a panel to review the tax evasion case filed against former Chief Justice Renato Corona, his daughter and her husband.
Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares admitted Friday that the evidence they have gathered against former Chief Justice Renato Corona was incomplete although what they have showed that tax evasion has been committed.
The taxman will not stop at ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona. Malacañang said yesterday that the filing of tax evasion case against Corona was proof of President Aquino’s sincerity in going after tax evaders.
In an Independence Day speech, President Benigno Aquino said the removal of Chief Justice Renato Corona brightened the essence of democracy in the country.
The officials of the new cities in Eastern Visayas were not concerned about the plan of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) to revive the issue of their cityhood status in the Supreme Court.
Malacanang won’t have a nominee for Chief Justice and would instead wait for the list to be submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), a spokesman for President Benigno Aquino III said over Radyo Inquirer 990AM.
It’s time for us to move on, one of the defense counsels of ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona said Friday.
The next chief justice should not be a politician nor should a politician be involved in the process of choosing a replacement for Chief Justice Renato Corona, a member of the prosecution from the House of Representatives said Friday.
Majority accept the Senate decision to convict Chief Justice Renato Corona, according to a recently concluded INQUIRER.net survey.
Cases that will be filed against former Chief Justice Renato Corona following his conviction may have to wait as to give him time to recover, a spokesman for the prosecution told Radyo Inquirer 990AM Friday.
Former Supreme Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez should also be removed from his position as Court Administrator, partylist group Akbayan said Friday.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Friday advised government officials to “heed lessons learned” from the conviction of Chief Justice Renato Corona as he lauded the ousted chief magistrate for respecting the Senate impeachment court’s decision.
