Retards in the Government 254

It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.

  

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1172031

The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has filed criminal cases against five cops tagged in the missing online sabong (cockfighting) agent in Laguna last year.

The CIDG said kidnapping/serious illegal detention and robbery were filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against Staff Sgt. Daryl Paghangaan; Pat. Roy Navarete; Lt. Henry Sasaluya; Master Sgt. Michael Claveria; and Pat. Regil Brosas, all members of the Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB), Laguna Police Provincial Office; and several John Does, for the alleged abduction of Ricardo Lasco.

The five cops allegedly involved in the case are now under restrictive custody of the Regional Holding and Accounting Unit of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 4A (Calabarzon).

The suspects were positively identified by witnesses based on their statements and other pieces of evidence as to the group of men who entered the house of Lasco a.k.a. “Jun”.

The suspects introduced themselves as National Bureau of Intelligence (NBI) personnel and then arrested the victim by virtue of a document purported to be a warrant of arrest for the crime of large scale estafa on August 30, 2021, in Barangay San Lucas 1, San Pablo City, Laguna.

Lasco is a master agent of e-sabong and a real estate agent who went missing after being abducted by the said suspects.

The suspects also took with them numerous personal belongings of the victim and his relatives worth more or less PHP500,000 and PHP180,000 cash.

5 cops have been arrested and charged with kidnapping an online cockfighting financier.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1581960/school-principal-shoots-to-death-teacher-husband-before-killing-himself-in-negros-occidental

A high school principal allegedly shot a teacher and her husband to death before killing himself at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 12, in Hinoba-an town, Negros Occidental.

Police investigation showed that principal Warren L. Escobar, 56, shot the couple at the Bilbao-Uybico National High School in Barangay Pook before taking his own life, Maj. John Ganzon said.

Killed were senior high school teacher Alvarisa A. Arroy and her husband, Christoper, both 35 years old.

Hinobaan Mayor Ernesto Estrao said he received unconfirmed information that the principal was angry at the teacher because a complaint was lodged against him with the Office of the President.

Escobar allegedly received a notice to explain in five days, and blamed the teacher for filing the complaint, the mayor said.

A high school principal angry at a teacher for filing a complaint against him with the Office of the President shot and killed both her and her husband. Then he killed himself.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1581937/nica-probing-over-20-smugglers-government-protectors

The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) is investigating a list of 20 “smugglers,” including an importer tagged as the “onion queen” operating in Cagayan de Oro,  and their “protectors” in government, senators were told on Tuesday.

This, as the Senate Committee of the Whole resumed its investigation into the smuggling of agricultural products into the country.

“As to the list of players, smugglers that are allegedly enjoying protection from the DA (Department of Agriculture) and BOC (Bureau of Customs) officials, we do have a list,” said NICA Director Edsel Batalla, who is the agency’s focal person to the government’s sub-task group on economic intelligence (STG-EI).

The NICA claims it is investigating DA and BOC officials for protecting vegetable smugglers.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1582759/barangay-chief-shot-dead-in-mati-davao-oriental

The chief of Barangay Mataiao in Mati City, Davao Oriental was shot dead at 8:18 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, inside his house, according to the Mati City Police Station.

Ronie Palma Gil Valera, 57, married, was resting on a hammock in his house in Purok Matahimik-1 when attacked.

Unidentified gunmen shot him several times, according to a report by the investigating officers, Cpl. Sunder Orjaliza and Cpl. Franciz Regidor.

A barangay captain was shot dead by unknown men while resting on his hammock at his house.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1582673/barangay-official-killed-another-hurt-in-batangas-shooting

A village secretary was killed and the treasurer was wounded in a shooting incident Wednesday in Bauan town in Batangas province.

The Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) police in a report said Jojo Acuzar, secretary of Barangay (village) Sta. Maria was driving the barangay mobile patrol vehicle at around 12:45 p.m. with Demetrio Silang, the village treasurer, as a passenger when the assailant, armed with a still unknown firearm, who was waiting at the shoulder of the road repeatedly shot at them.

After the shooting, the gunman fled aboard a motorcycle driven by his cohort.

A village secretary was killed and the treasurer was wounded in an attack by unknown men for unknown reasons while they were driving in the barangay mobile patrol vehicle.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1582778/falsified-info-on-drug-war-deaths-spurs-probes

The multiagency panel headed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) tasked with scrutinizing President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war, the Philippine National Police, and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will look into the alleged fraudulent death certificates of some who were killed in the anti-drug operations, officials said on Wednesday.

“The alleged falsification of death certificates as a possible cover-up is part of the DOJ drug war review,” Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told the Inquirer, referring to findings by Dr. Raquel Fortun, a well-respected forensic pathologist.

Asked if this was the first time that he had come across Fortun’s findings, he said: “The original problem that we encountered was the absence of a copy of the death certificate in some records or files that we reviewed.”

He said the death certificates may have been issued but some of them could not be found in the files of the PNP or the National Prosecution Service (NPS).

Fortun told reporters on Tuesday that she had autopsied the remains of 46 people killed in the war on drugs and found that the cause of death of some had been falsified to show they died of “natural causes.”

The death certificates of seven of the victims who had multiple gunshot wounds indicated they had died due to, among others, hypertension, sepsis, pneumonia or heart attack.

Allegedly several people, so far, who died during the drug war  and have been exhumed and autopsied have found to be riddled with bullet holes and their official certificates of death falsified. This could be pretty big if true and more proof that the war on drugs was a license to kill for the PNP.