The Sandiganbayan has barred outgoing Zamboanga del Norte governor Rolando Yebes from leaving the country to face a graft charge for alleged abuse of power in blocking the succession of a qualified applicant to a vacant seat in the municipal council of Tampilisan.
The public should not expect closure to the Dacer-Corbito murders if those who claim to have knowledge of the 12-year-old case would make themselves scarce as in the case of Cezar Mancao who left protective detention at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
The Office of the Ombudsman has asked two members of the Sandiganbayan Third Division to inhibit themselves from hearing the graft case against businessman Roberto Ongpin and former officials of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) for conflict of interest.
The Sandiganbayan has subpoenaed former Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri and former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. to testify in the graft case against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Supreme Court administrator Midas Marquez on Thursday deplored that a year after the murder of a distinguished Negros Occidental judge, “the masterminds have not been brought to justice and remain scot-free.”
The Sandiganbayan has convicted former Bureau of Fire Protection Director Mario Tanchangco, six other BFP officials and a businessman for graft in connection with the purchase of P6.5-million worth of vehicle spare parts in 1992 which proved to be nonexistent.
The Sandiganbayan has issued a hold-departure order against Iloilo Rep. Augusto Syjuco in connection with six grafts charges filed against him.
Former police Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao is an example of our twisted system of justice: From a principal witness in a twin murder case to an accused in the same case.
Saying that the law cannot require the impossible, a Quezon City judge has junked the request of five of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case to be allowed to register to vote in the May elections.
A rape victim, who alleged she was sexually abused five years ago by two relatives of a Caloocan City politician, claimed on Thursday that the local court and the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) have been either wittingly or unwittingly preventing the revival of the accusation by denying her access to records of her own case.
A Dutchman was jailed for three years on Tuesday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali for sexually abusing four girls.
The lawyer of Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co on Wednesday questioned the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proceedings that led to issuance by a court of an arrest warrant against the local executive for alleged involvement in the multibillion-peso investment scam perpetrated by Aman Futures Inc.
She’s in a bind, but she’s not taking things sitting down, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said, amid a contempt suit filed against her by one of the principal suspects in the January 2011 murder of Palawan broadcaster Gerry Ortega.
