It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
A village official in Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay was arrested for illegal possession of firearms and explosives, a top police official said Friday.
Arrested was Saran Ayunan Abdurahman, 45, the barangay chairperson of Kulasian, Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay, according to Brig. Gen. Jesus Cambay Jr., Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) director.
Cambay said Abdurahman was arrested through a search warrant shortly past 10 a.m. Thursday in his residence in Barangay Kulasian for violation of the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act.
The raiding team seized a .38-caliber revolver with six live ammunition, a hand grenade, and some 10 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated value of PHP68,000, Cambay said.
Barangay chairman arrested for illegal weapons and drugs.
A belated police report showed that the bodies of former police officer Alvin John Eleazar, 31, and his aide Ariel Padilla, were found in a creek in Barangay Killo, Sison town on July 26.
The victims’ remains were taken to a funeral home in Sison.
Investigators said the two were reported to be missing since July 24.
The victims suffered bullet wounds to their heads and bore signs of torture.
Padilla’s head was wrapped in a black plastic bag and his legs tied with masking tape.
PNP officer and his aide tortured to death and tossed in a creek.
The wife of Maguindanao Rep. Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu has accused him of having affairs with other women, an allegation that she made public in several Facebook posts that had gone viral.
The now-deleted posts of Mylene Mangudadatu, but which still circulated in social media circles, accused the lawmaker of keeping two mistresses, one of which is a beauty queen.
Congressman very publicly on Facebook accused of infidelity by his wife. His son then sent her a death threat.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has ordered the five-day suspension without pay of a Dipolog District Office employee allegedly caught on video having her hair fixed and styled, beauty parlor style, during office hours.
The CSC regional office, through Regional Director Aminola Abaton, said it would “conduct further inquiry” into the matter.
In the video, the suspended employee was shown using a straightening iron to style her hair, while other customers were waiting to be served.
LGU official caught using her office as a beauty parlor. Who were the other customers waiting? This story and headline is not every clear but what is clear is that another LGU official has done something stupid.
At least half of adult Filipinos agree that it is dangerous to print or broadcast anything critical of the Duterte administration, according to the results of a Social Weather Stations survey released Friday.
Based on a mobile phone survey conducted between July 3 to 6, a total of 51% of respondents agree with the statement, "It is dangerous to print or broadcast anything critical of the administration, even if it is the truth."
Why kind of government do you have when the people are afraid of it?
Two traffic law enforcers of the Land Transportation Office (LTO)-Cagayan Valley Region were arrested for alleged extortion in this city on Monday, police said.
Police Brig. Gen. Crizaldo Nieves, Cagayan Valley regional police director, identified the suspects as Chito Apattad, 45, of Camasi, Peñablanca, Cagayan, and Darwin Isidro Pauig, 41, of Alibagu, Enrile, Cagayan.
The suspects were arrested during an entrapment operation after they reportedly demanded P30,000 from two drivers they flagged down in exchange for the nullification of traffic citation tickets.
Two officers caught extorting drivers.
A total of 155 criminal complaints were filed with the Office of the Ombudsman against barangay captains allegedly involved in the anomalous handling of funds for the social amelioration program, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said Monday.
In a televised briefing at the Presidential Guest House in Davao City, Año said he expected 50 barangay captains to be preventively suspended as the Ombudsman investigated their cases.
The 50 barangay officials are among the 155 who were the subjects of criminal complaints filed by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Año told President Rodrigo Duterte in a taped meeting.
The complaints were for malversation, corruption, estafa, and other graft-related anomalies in the distribution of the SAP, Año said.
Criminal complaints concerning SAP distribution anomalies have been field against 155 barangay chairmen. 50 of those men have been preventively suspended.
“He must be credible with a good career pattern and meritorious record, senior and no pending case in court. But the President has the prerogative to choose any general even outside the shortlist,” Año said in a text message to INQUIRER.net in response to a query on which qualities should the next Philippine National Police (PNP) chief must possess.
In the Philippines a good quality for any would-be PNP Chief is no pending court cases! How short is this shortlist?
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed a criminal complaint against two immigration officers who allegedly falsified the travel records of a former executive of German payments firm Wirecard.
The NBI said "spurious" immigration records on the travel of former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek to and from the Philippines last June appear to have been meant to mislead the European authorities pursuing him.
Agents recommended the prosecution of immigration officers Perry Michael Pancho and Marcus Nicodemus for falsification of public documents by a public official and violation of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees in relation to the anti-graft law.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said in June that there were records of Marsalek arriving in the country on June 23 and leaving for China on June 24. He later said the records were found to have been falsified.
Two BOI agents charged with falsifying immigration records.
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