Three co-accused in the last remaining drug case filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against former senator Leila de Lima asked the judge to inhibit from hearing the drug case due to conflict of interest. In a decision dated June 7 on case 17-167, Presiding Judge Romeo Buenaventura of the...
A Muntinlupa court has granted the government prosecutors’ request to reopen the trial for one of the two remaining drug cases of former senator Leila de Lima that has been set for decision on May 12. In an order dated April 24, the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 204 reopened the...
Former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officer-in-charge Rafael Ragos testified again on Dec. 2 in the drug trial of former senator Leila de Lima about his recantation absolving her and Ronnie Dayan. “The hearing went well,” De Lima said as she left the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204,...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima said she is thankful that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be reviewing the drug cases she is facing in Muntinlupa courts but said it should also look into how witnesses were allegedly “coerced.” De Lima has been detained at Camp Crame for more than five years...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima said she is hoping more people will come out and tell the truth to prove her innocence in the drug charges that she is facing. De Lima has been in detention for more than five years since February 2017 after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed three cases against...
Ronnie Dayan, the former security aide of detained Senator Leila de Lima, has denied getting P10 million from Rafael Ragos, former Bureau of Corrections officer-in-charge and the star witness of the prosecution. Ragos earlier recanted his statements against Dayan and De Lima. Dayan attended a...
The camp of detained Senator Leila de Lima is hoping that a Muntinlupa court will dismiss one of the two remaining drug cases she is facing for lack of evidence after star witness Rafael Ragos recanted all his accusations against her. On May 13, De Lima attended a hearing at the Muntinlupa Regional...
Detained reelectionist Senator Leila de Lima said the retraction of Rafael Ragos, former officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), is five years too late but “I am glad that he did.” Ragos, a key witness and former co-accused in a drug case filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Presidential aspirant Senator Manny Pacquiao on Thursday, April 7 stood by his recent statement, wherein he bared that Senator Leila De Lima’s former driver-bodyguard confessed to him that he supposedly delivered illegal drug money to the detained lawmaker. “Nag-rerely lang naman ako sa sinabi...
Reelectionist Sen. Leila de Lima welcomed the manifestations filed before Muntinlupa courts by Ronnie Dayan, her former aide and co-accused in one of two remaining cases, denying the comments made by presidential aspirant Manny Pacquiao that he received and delivered money that allegedly came from...
Ronnie Dayan, the co-accused in cases filed by the Department of Justice against Sen. Leila de Lima, has refuted the statement of presidential candidate and Sen. Manny Pacquiao that he received and delivered money that allegedly came from illegal drug trading at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in...
