CAVITE – A parcel delivery rider was arrested in Silang after falsely claiming he was robbed to justify the money that he collected from customers and lost to gambling. A report from the Police Regional Office 4A stated that the 26-year-old suspect, identified as alias Josh, went to the Silang...
ILOILO CITY – The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered the arrest of Emily V. Yanson for perjury and falsification of public documents after it ruled that she is not a stockholder of Ceres Transport Inc., one of the nine companies under the country’s largest bus conglomerate based in Bacolod City....
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the three perjury charges filed against Mayor Rommel C. Maslog of Talisayan town in Misamis Oriental for lack of jurisdiction and violation of his right to speedy disposition of cases. The first perjury charge was allegedly committed by Maslog when he was vice mayor...
TACLOBAN CITY – A barangay chairman was arrested along with three barangay councilors and 12 civilians in Mondragon, Northern Samar, for perjury on Friday, October 6. Police identified the suspects as Arnel Domasig, 41, chairman of Barangay Talolora, Mondragon, and Barangay Talolora...
DND Secretary Gibo Teodoro (Facebook) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is mulling the filing of perjury charges against environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro. This was bared Wednesday, Sept. 20 by Negros Occidental 6th district Rep....
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has recommended the filing of graft and perjury charges against high-ranking officials of the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Services and the Department of Education (DepEd) who figured in the alleged anomalous purchase of “overpriced” and...
Senator Richard Gordon said the two key witnesses in the case against Senator Leila de Lima are liable for perjury after recanting their bombshell testimony. Gordon, the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights chairman, said that Rafael Ragos and Kerwin Espinosa should be investigated by the...
President Duterte has signed a law prescribing stiffer penalties for the crime of perjury. (Ye Jinghan/ Unsplash) Enacted was Republic Act (RA) No.11594, titled, "An Act increasing the penalties for perjury, amending for the purpose Articles 183 and 184 of Act No. 3815, as amended, otherwise known...
A Manila court ordered the arrest of Peter Joemel Advincula, alias “Bikoy,” for his failure to attend the arraignment and preliminary conference for his perjury case on July 21. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Manila Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 17 also ordered to forfeit the bail Advincula...
