Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, and 2 other persons were charged with plunder and graft involving P6.6 billion in a complaint filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, July 5, by former senator Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV. Also charged with...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) starts at 10 a.m. today, July 5, the preliminary investigation on the non-bailable qualified trafficking in persons complaints against suspended Mayor Alice L. Guo of Bamban, Tarlac and her 13 co-respondents. The complaints against Guo and her co-respondents were...
Due to close coordination with law enforcement agencies, the National Prosecution Service (NPS) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has achieved an almost 94 percent conviction rate in cases filed before the trial courts. “Dahil masinop na kinuha ng DOJ ang ebidensya kasama ang law enforcement...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday, July 4, it will soon allow online preliminary investigations of criminal complaints filed before government prosecutors. DOJ Undersecretary Jesse Hermogenes T. Andres said during the “Bagong Pilipinas DOJ Town Hall" event held in Dasmarinas...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) can accept donations, like mobile clinics, from a tobacco company, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. What is prohibited, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla said in a legal opinion issued last June 6, "is the receipt or solicitation...
Criminal complaints were filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday, July 2, against two Chinese nationals who were arrested during the raid of Lucky South 99 Corporation, a facility of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) in Angeles City in Pampanga. Deputy City Prosecutor...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has insisted that the Maria Francesca Tan (MFT) Group of Companies, Inc. and Foundry Ventures I, Inc. should have secured the necessary government licenses first before soliciting investments from the public, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on...
Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla on Tuesday, July 2, welcomed the release of Gerardo Dela Pena, 85, who is one of the country’s oldest persons deprived of liberty (PDLs). “I wish Mr. Dela Pena well as he embarks on a new journey of his life,” said Remulla in a...
Former Lapu-Lapu City mayor who was also former president of Mandaue City's Rural Bank of Subangdaku, Inc. (RBSI) Paz C. Radaza and 18 other former bank officers and personnel have been convicted of falsification of public and commercial documents in connection with P2.6 billion 'dubious' loans...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, June 28, expressed confidence that the appeal that would be filed by fugitive and expelled Negros Oriental congressman Arnolfo "Arnie" A. Teves Jr. on his extradition ordered by the Timor-Leste's Court of Appeals would be denied. “We are very...
Fugitive and expelled Negros Oriental congressman Arnolfo “Arnie” A. Teves Jr. cannot be sent back to the Philippines while his appeal on the extradition order issued by the Timor-Leste court is pending, his lawyer Ferdinand Topacio said on Friday, Jund 28. Topacio had earlier said that Teves...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed last night, June 27, the grant by the Timor-Leste government of the extradition of fugitive and expelled Negros Oriental congressman Arnolfo “Arnie” A. Teves on request of the Philippines. DOJ Assistant Secretary Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV said: “The...
