At least four persons, including an employee of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), were charged before the City Prosecutor’s Office in Cotabato City for suspected involvement in a police recruitment scam.
The Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office has recommended that cases be filed against three police rookies and their tipster who were arrested last week for allegedly robbing a man and then extorting P10,000 from him.
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court has set the arraignment of a son and a son-in-law of former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. after denying their petitions for the dismissal of the murder charges against them for the killing of 58 persons in Maguindanao in 2009.
The mother of Jason Ivler, who is on trial for killing a man in a road rage encounter, is asking the Quezon City Regional Trial Court to allow her to file a demurrer to evidence in the obstruction of justice filed against her for allegedly helping her son evade arrest three years ago.
State prosecutors have asked the Quezon City Regional Trial Court to immediately set the arraignment of an accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre who had claimed that he was mistakenly arrested as one of the perpetrators of the carnage.
The National Bureau of Investigation seized three vehicles believed to have been stolen, on board a commercial vessel at the Port of Manila on Wednesday.
The head of the local business group who was among those charged by the Marikina City government for reportedly failing to pay around P14 million for the operation of a Christmas bazaar in 2012, is also filing charges—this time, against the head of a government unit and media organizations that reportedly maligned him.
The Sandiganbayan Third Division has barred from travelling outside the country former Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) chair Efraim Genuino and his six others accused by the Ombudsman of bilking the government’s cash cow during the Arroyo administration. The Ombudsman’s case was filed last May 27.
A Quezon City court sentenced a man to serve up to eight years in prison for attacking his neighbor on Christmas Day more than five years ago.
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) lauded on Thursday, the passage of a law that prohibits the illegal use of the group’s emblems, especially during armed conflicts.
Don’t drink and drive. This time the authorities mean it.
Sen. Loren Legarda on Monday faced a second graft charge in the Office of the Ombudsman—this time for allegedly using a shell company to hide her ownership of a multimillion-peso Balinese-inspired mansion in Forbes Park, the swank village of the rich and famous in Makati City.
The Sandiganbayan recently convicted former Dapitan City municipal mayor Joseph Cedrick Ruiz for graft and malversation charges for pocketing close to P1 million in confidential intelligence fund (CIF) from 1998 to 2001.
