One down, four to go. The Philippine National Police on Sunday expressed confidence that the remaining four of the “Big 5” high-profile fugitives would soon end up behind bars following last week’s arrest of real estate magnate Delfin Lee.
The discovery of the identity of Delfin Lee’s mistress and his penchant for luxurious rides did him in.
In less than a week, 35 of the country’s most wanted criminals have been arrested. In its bid to eradicate most wanted persons, the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong, newly-minted CIDG chief, said they consider their recent accomplishment as an “overwhelming outcome” of the CIDG’s campaign against MWPs.
Despite questions on the legality of the arrest warrant issued for alleged real estate scammer Delfin Lee, the Philippine National Police stood by its validity on Friday.
Fugitive real estate magnate Delfin Lee, who is embroiled in the P6.6 billion Globe Asiatique fund scam, is now detained at the National Bureau of Investigation regional office in Pampanga.
A trainer aircraft carrying two pilots, one is a Myanmar national, crashed into a residential area in Nueva Ecija early Thursday morning.
A trainer aircraft carrying two pilots, one is a Myanmar national, crashed in a residential area in Nueva Ecija early Thursday morning.
Officials and personnel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) team in Pampanga province were arrested by a CIDG team from Philippine National Police headquarters in Metro Manila on Monday on charges of “recycling” at least 26 kilograms of illegal drugs seized by the police in a drug bust in the province last year.
It’s not easy to just transfer alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles to a regular jail, especially when she might just decide to spill the beans on her operations, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said on Tuesday.
Janet Lim Napoles, the alleged brains behind the P10-billion pork barrel scam, has asked the Makati Regional Trial Court to allow her to undergo surgery to remove her cyst in the uterus at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City and be confined in the same hospital afterward.
A bemedalled Philippine National Police official has been arrested by his colleagues for allegedly “recycling” or selling at least 26 kilograms of illegal drugs seized by the police in a drug bust in Pampanga last year.
Several high-powered firearms and weapons were seized from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group team of Pampanga police following the alleged involvement of its chief in extorting money from drug syndicates.
Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II thinks detained businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles should stay just where she is.
