FILE – Customs broker Mark Ruben Taguba PHOTO/ Tetch Torres-Tupas, INQUIRER.net
Customs broker Mark Taguba has been transferred to the detention facility of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed on Friday.
NBI spokesperson Ferdinand Lavin said Taguba was taken to Camp Bagong Diwa at around 5 p.m. on Thursday based on the new commitment order issued by the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46.
Taguba was supposed to be detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center inside Camp Crame but he was turned down by the PNP, citing a 2010 memorandum issued by the Supreme Court’s Office of the Court Administrator (OCAD).
“The agents informed the court of the circumstances,” Lavin told reporters.
“The court issued another commitment order, this time ordering the NBI to turn over the person of Mark Ruben Taguba to the jail warden of the BJMP in Camp Bagong Diwa,” he added.
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