The Philippine National Police (PNP) will see to it that high-profile individuals evading the law are apprehended even if it requires the use of force, the nation’s top police official said on Friday, June 6. PNP Chief, Police General Nicolas Torre III said continuous manhunt operations are...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has added the hold departure order (HDO) against former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Chief Gerald Bantag and former BuCor Deputy Security Officer Ricardo Zulueta to their system. (Former BuCor Chief Gerald Bantag / File photo) BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the...
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves thinks that the government wants to claim him and former Bureau of Corrections (Bucor) director general Gerald Bantag as "trophies". By "trophies", Teves meant an accomplishment for the government a la big game hunting. Only, the controversial...
The Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) has ordered a manhunt operation against former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag and former BuCor Deputy Security Officer Ricardo Zulueta over the death of inmate Jun Villamor, an alleged...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, March 15 welcomed the indictment of suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag and former deputy security officer Ricardo Zulueta for two counts murder over the killing of broadcast journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa. “The...
National police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. advised on Monday, Nov. 14, suspended prisons head Gerald Bantag to do the talking during the legal proceedings in connection with the death of broadcast journalist Percival Mabasa and alleged middleman Jun Villamor instead of doing it through media...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — “How did we come up to this?” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday wailed over the findings in the investigation on the killing of hard-hitting radio commentator Percy Lapid as it led to the tagging of several government officials as brains behind the crime....
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is prepared to create tracker teams to locate suspended prisons chief Gerald Bantag and his deputy Ricardo Zulueta if they would go into hiding in case a warrant of arrest is issued against them in connection with the killing of broadcast journalist Percival...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte has no reason to have broadcast journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa killed, Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said on Tuesday, November 8. Dela Rosa, an ally of the former Duterte administration, said he finds it illogical that the former leader would...
The Muntinlupa City Zoning and Administration Office has sent a letter to the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) inquiring about a development project along Biazon Road inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Reservation in Bgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa. According to a Dec. 1-dated letter by City Zoning...
Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag said he is saddened that the Muntinlupa City Council declared him as persona non grata, or unwelcome person, in the city after the agency built a wall on a road leading to a Department of Justice housing project inside the New Bilibid...
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi expressed dismay over the action of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to build a wall on a road leading to a subdivision, public high school, and university inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Reservation last Friday night. The road has been used for decades by...
