It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Archie Gamboa on Thursday ordered the relief and restrictive custody of 11 police officers accused of kidnapping and killing 6 alleged drug traffickers in San Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has recommended the filing of criminal complaints of kidnapping with murder and planting of evidence against the policemen over an alleged fabricated anti-drug operation that led to the death of 6 men.
The policemen made it appear that the victims fought back in separate buy-bust operations from Feb. 14 to 18, the NBI said.
However, the victims were photographed inside the police station while blindfolded and tied. They were later brought to a remote area where they were killed, the agency added.
11 policemen charged with the murder of 6 men.
Police authorities here have launched an investigation into the reported breach in quarantine protocol by a returning resident who tested positive last week for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
Col. Aden Lagradante, city police director, said Friday they received confirmation that the male patient, who returned home last July 30 due to the death of his mother, is a member of the Quezon City Central Police District.
He directed the city police’s investigation and detection management branch to look into the movements and actions made by the policeman.
Based on protocol, he said the patient should have complied with the mandatory 21-day quarantine in a designated isolation facility as set by the local government.
But the policeman and another sibling were fetched by a city official from the isolation center hours upon arrival and brought to their home to continue their quarantine despite an ongoing wake for their deceased mother.
The cop turned out positive for Covid-19 on Aug. 7, triggering concerns of possible transmission to his family members and other persons who visited his mother’s wake.
Would the family really wait 21 days to bury the lady just so this guy can attend the funeral? No wonder he violated quarantine protocols!
The Central Luzon police director has been sued by this town’s mayor for allegedly disrupting the enforcement of the local quarantine when he removed the San Antonio chief of police.
Mayor Arvin Salonga filed criminal and administrative complaints against Police Brig. Gen. Rhodel Sermonia, director of Police Regional Office 3 in Camp Olivas (PRO3), for transferring Police Maj. Roderick Corpuz to Tarlac City. The complaints against Sermonia were received by the Office of the Ombudsman on Aug. 12, records show.
In the complaint, Salonga said the working relationship between San Antonio and the police had been “exemplary” under Corpuz’s watch. The mayor said the former police chief had been committed to “the strict and effective implementation of the programs and executive orders issued by the [municipal government] especially during this time that the country is facing the coronavirus disease (COVID -19) pandemic.”
PNP officer is being sued by the mayor for removing another PNP officer. The mayor said his removal violated the law and caused COVID-19 cases to spike because he was doing a good job enforcing protocols.
The provincial board of Palawan, acting as an adjudication body, ordered a 60-day preventive suspension of farmer-turned-mayor Gerandy Danao in Narra town for administrative charges.
In a 13-0 vote, with one abstention, the 10-page preventive suspension order was served by the Provincial Legal Office (PLO) on Tuesday afternoon, after the Narra municipal council, led by Vice Mayor Crispin Lumba Jr., filed administrative complaints against the town’s chief executive.
The suspension was supposed to start upon receipt of the order, but Danao’s camp refused to receive the document.
Danao was facing three administrative cases filed on May 25 by the municipal council for “grave misconduct,” “gross negligence,” and his “conduct prejudicial to the best interest of service.”
The grave misconduct complaint was anchored on the permit Danao had allegedly issued to the cockpit arena in Barangay Antipuluan, which was without the approval of the local Sanggunian.
The municipal council also pointed out that he allegedly failed to prepare and submit the Executive Budget for 2020; and failed to efficiently enforce and implement Municipal Ordinance No. 2020-976, an ordinance appropriating about P9.8 million to buy equipment and facilities in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) threat.
The Sanggunian Bayan also pinpointed Danao’s mismanagement that subsequently resulted in the “decrease in the productivity” of the Narra Municipal Water System.
The mayor of Paawan has been preventively suspended based on accusations of grave misconduct, gross negligence, and conduct prejudice to the best interest of service.
Former mayor Edward Josh Cobangbang of Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, who was charged with serious illegal detention and grave coercion in connection with the illegal takeover of a government-owned resort in 2017, surrendered on Friday.
Cobangbang, 25, who went into hiding after an arrest warrant was issued by Sanchez Mira Cagayan Regional Trial Court Branch 12 Judge Gemma Bucayu-Madrid on Oct. 22, surfaced with his father former mayor Edwardo Cobangbang at the Ilocos police office in San Fernando City, La Union, regional director Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin said.
Fifteen officials and employees of the Cabugao municipal government who were indicted for the same offense surrendered on Saturday last week.
They allegedly padlocked the Cabugao beach resort, with its operator, her four-year-old son and several employees trapped inside.
The ex-mayor of Cabugao and 15 others indicted last October finally surrendered to authorities.
The police are looking for three of their colleagues who broke into a compound housing Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) employees in Muntinlupa City last week and took their valuables worth around P827,000.
Pat. Ryan John Mercado, Cpl. Michael Rikk Carpena and Staff Sergeant April Nikko Faelnar, along with four accomplices, were charged with robbery in the city prosecutor’s office over the weekend.
Mercado used to be with the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) who went Awol, or absent without official leave, after he failed a surprise drug test.
Caperna, who was with the Muntinlupa police, also went Awol after he was transferred to the NCRPO Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit.
Faelnar, on the other hand, was identified as an active member of the Southern Police District.
Only one of the suspects had been arrested, Angelo Perlota, who drove the van being used by Pogo employees. The NCRPO said he had admitted being the tipster of the group.
Some might call this justice as POGOs don't pay taxes and are bad for Filipinos.
A soldier and a woman are facing charges after they were arrested in a drug bust in Catbalogan City, Samar on Saturday, August 15.
Corporal Raffy Garcia, 33, a member of the 8th Infantry Division, and Renalyn Atiga, 23, were accused of selling shabu (methamphetamine) to a poseur-buyer.
They will be charged for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, particularly for selling prohibited drugs.
The offense is non-bailable.
Authorities consider Garcia of Sta. Margarita town in Samar a high-value target and a former surrenderer during the Oplan Tokhang program of the Philippine National Police.
How is it a solider on active duty is also a high-value drug target who previously surrendered under Oplan Tokhang!???
A mayoralty candidate in the 2019 election died in an ambush Monday afternoon staged by two unidentified men on board a motorcycle in Barangay Banga here.
Lt. Col. Bernardo Pagaduan, Meycauayan police chief, identified the victim as Ryan Afable Cayanan, 45, a businessman and resident of the said barangay.
Based on initial investigation, one of the two suspects shot the victim around 12:30 p.m. as he was crossing the stretch of MacArthur Highway on board his motorcycle.
"Three bullet wounds from a caliber .40 gun hit various parts of the victim's body that resulted in his death," Pagaduan said.
After the attack, the two suspects fled to an unknown direction.
The victim was rushed to the Meycauayan Doctors Hospital but pronounced dead while being treated.
Authorities are still determining the motive for the shooting. According to initial investigation, the victim posted the following message on his Facebook page before the ambush:
"Lahat nang galaw ko may CCTV footage kayo, mga kababayan, kapag may nangyari po sa aking masama, alam nyo na po sino may gawa. Ang nais ko lamang po patas na pagbabago para sa Meycaueño, magiging masaya po akong mamatay para sa inyo (All my movements have CCTV footage. My province mates, if anything wrong happens to me, you know who did it. My only desire is change for Meycaueños. I will be happy to die for you)."
It sounds like this guy knew he was marked for death. Hopefully he was fully prepared.
A councilor Northern Kabuntalan town in Maguindanao who is on the list of high-valued targets (HVT) of anti-narcotics operatives was killed in a buy-bust operation on Sunday afternoon.
Killed for allegedly resisting arrest was Councilor Jaymar Nandang of Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao.
Nandang “resisted and fought our operatives when we asked for his surrender after we confirmed his illegal activity. We had no choice but to fire at him first before he could hurt our team,” said Director Juvenal Azurin, chief of Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
A village councilor who was a high value target was killed in a buy-bust operation when he resisted arrest.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Archie Gamboa is facing grave misconduct and other complaints for allegedly hiding and tampering with evidence in the probe into the death of Richard Santillan, an aide of former Biliran Rep. Glenn Chong.
The complaints filed by Santillan’s wife Jeanette and Chong on Tuesday before the Office of the Ombudsman accuse Gamboa, in his capacity as PNP officer-in-charge and eventually as PNP chief, of allegedly tampering with evidence in the investigation.
Santillan was killed during a police operation in Cainta in 2018, but Chong claimed that the body of his slain aide bore torture marks. The PNP, then under the helm of former police chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde, said that a shootout happened between police officers and Santillan’s side.
“By knowing, willfully and maliciously, and feloniously concealing from complainants the Crime Scene Photographs which are material evidence in the prosecution for the violation of Section 38 of Republic Act No. 10591 for the planting of incriminating evidence against Richard Santillan,” the complaint added.
All in all, the complaint against Gamboa consists of one count of grave misconduct, one count of conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service, five counts for violation of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials, and five counts for breaching sections in Presidential Decree No. 1829 or the Obstruction of Criminal Prosecution.
PNP Chief is charged with tampering with evidence from a case back in 2018.
A police officer who was charged with two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder has not resisted arrest when served with a warrant.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Ilocos Police Regional Office (PRO-1) said Master Sgt. Dario Naval Cahigas, police assigned at the Regional Police Holding Assistance Service of PRO-1, surrendered to the authorities during the serving of an arrest warrant.
Cahigas was one of police suspects in the ambush of Balaoan Vice Mayor Al-Fred Concepcion, Mayor Aleli Concepcion and their companions.
The ambush happened on Nov. 14, 2018 when the Concepcions were on their way to the municipal hall onboard their car when they were blocked by gunmen who fired at their convoy.
PNP officer want in connection with an ambush on the mayor and vice mayor of La Union two years ago is finally arrested.
A policeman was wounded after he was shot on Tuesday afternoon by a former colleague in Barangay Lagasit here.
In an interview on Wednesday, Lt. Benedict Espinoza, officer-in-charge of San Quintin Police Station, identified the victim as Staff Sgt. Gaspar Lucena, assigned at the Pangasinan 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company (PMFC) in Tayug town.
One of the suspects identified was Robert Carbonel, a dismissed policeman.
Based on their investigation, Espinoza said Lucena was at his hut when Carbonel, along with a still unidentified male, allegedly alighted from their motor vehicle and shot the victim several times.
“The victim managed to evade some of the shots, but he was hit twice on his side,” he said.
Lucena was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital in Tayug town, while Carbonel was immediately arrested following a manhunt operation by the police.
“It appears that the motive behind the shooting is an old grudge between the two,” Espinoza added.
PNP officer shot by former PNP officer over old grudge.
Ombudsman Samuel Martires has issued a six-month long preventive suspension against 13 Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) officials.
Based on two separate suspension orders obtained by GMA News, the two suspension orders were executed last August 18.
It was unclear, however, which cases prompted the issuance of the suspension orders. The Senate, House of Representatives as well as the task force formed by Malacañang are currently looking into allegations of corruption within PhilHealth.
GMA News Online has reached out to Martires and his office for clarification, but has yet to receive a reply as of press time.
In a Twitter post, PhilHealth said it has yet to receive a copy of the Ombudsman order supposedly placing some of its senior officers under preventive suspension.
“As of this time, the concerned officers are not aware of the charges against them. We will issue a full statement as soon as we get hold of the said order,” the state insurer said.
13 PhilHealth officials
suspended
but none them are yet aware of the charges against them.
The Department of Interior and Local Government in Central Visayas (DILG-7) has issued a show-cause order to the chief of Barangay Ermita here over the tigbakay, or cockfighting, that was caught being held in the village over the weekend.
The DILG-7 ordered Ermita Captain Mark Miral to explain the incident that involved residents who participated in the illegal activity amid the strict protocols against public gathering under the General Community Quarantine. The individuals were also caught not wearing face masks.
Tigbakay, or cockfighting, is illegal under the Presidential Decree 449 or Cockfighting Law of 1974 as amended by PD 1602 or An Act Prescribing Stiffer Penalties on Illegal Gambling.
The Carbon Police Station will already be filing charges against the five individuals who were arrested due to the illegal activity.
Miral, as the barangay chief, will have to explain within 48 hours why the barangay should not be held responsible for the incident.
Barangay chief being held responsible for illegal cockfighting in his barangay.
A councilor of a village in Balamban town in Cebu who had a standing warrant of arrest for an illegal drug case was nabbed on Tuesday afternoon, August 18, 2020.
Teofilo Bariquatro, 48, was arrested the Sitio Sandayong of Barangay Sunog in Balamban. He is a councilor of the said village.
Bariquatro was charged for possession of marijuana plants back in 2005.
The Intelligence Unit of the Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) led by Police Lieutenant Randy Korret was able to locate Bariquatro after nine days of monitoring.
According to Korret, a warrant of arrest for possession of illegal drugs was issued for Bariquatro in June 2006 from Honorable Judge Villarin of Regional Trial Court Branch 29 of Toledo City, Cebu.
Barangay councilor arrested over drugs on a warrant that is 14 years old!!
Fifteen former and incumbent officers of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) including its former chairman Jose Jorge Corpuz are facing criminal charges before the Office of the Ombudsman for alleged irregularities in their agency.
In a letter dated July 7, but was presented to the media on Tuesday, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) recommended filing a case for violation of Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and Gross Misconduct against former PCSO chairman Corpuz; former general manager Alexander Balutan; Mabel Mamba; Francisco Joaquin; Marlon Balite; Sandra Cam; and Jesus Manuel Suntay.
Also, the NBI filed a case for violation of Section 4(b) of the Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and Gross Misconduct against Remeliza Gabuyo, Atty. Lauro Patiag, Atty. Anna Liza Inciong, Merceditas Hinayon, Arnel Casas, Andy Gauran and Edwin Mackay.
The NBI, meanwhile, filed another case for obstruction of justice and serious dishonesty against Gabuyo.
“Due to the acts and/or omissions of the PCSO Officers and employees the funds that should have been part of the Charity Funds to be enjoyed by the echelons of the society were enjoyed only by a few PCSO employees,” read the NBI letter.
Gabuyo, meanwhile, faced obstruction of justice after she allegedly “misled the NBI” for failing to include a document that the NBI requested while investigation in the agency is ongoing.
The NBI has recommended charges of graft and corrupt practices and gross misconduct against 15 PCSO officials as well as obstruction of justice and serious dishonesty against another PCSO official.
(We have already filed formal complaints, we filed [complaints against] 49 barangay officials before the Ombudsman. Not only because of social amelioration but also due to health protocol violations.)
49 more barangay officials charged with anomalies in the SAP distribution as well as health protocol violations.
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