A California jury has found Filipino American Larry Millete guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Maya Millete, a Filipina, who went missing on Jan. 7, 2021 and has never been found. Fox 5 San Diego reported that jurors in Chula Vista delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after...
Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro rejected the notion that the House prosecution team was "beaten" on the first day of Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial. In fact, Luistro, the lead prosecutor, was quite adamant that they were "victorious" Monday,...
The Sandiganbayan has convicted former Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Corp., Inc. (Baseco) board member Agustiniana C. Avelino of 13 graft charges for the withdrawal of P102 million from 2008 to 2010 without proper justification. Avelino has been sentenced to six to eight years imprisonment for...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed its decision that convicted former Sarangani governor Miguel D. Escobar and a former employee of graft and malversation of public funds amounting to P450,000 in 2002. Escobar and former management analyst Alexis Jude K. Dela Cruz filed motions for...
Two former officials of the now defunct National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) have been convicted by the Sandiganbayan in three criminal cases involving the ghost procurement of P4.8 million worth of seedlings for the 1st district of Lanao del Norte in 2009. Convicted of graft,...
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the appeal filed by former Cebu customs official Benjamin C. Bongon and private individual Roger T. Ang seeking to overturn their graft conviction on the irregular sugar auction conducted in 2000. In a decision dated Dec. 1, 2017, the Cebu City regional trial court...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former acting general manager Jamaloden H. Faisal of the Tugaya Water District in Lanao del Sur for graft and malversation of public funds in the P10 million water supply improvement project in 2011. Affirmed were Faisal's six to 10 years prison term...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former Davao del Norte congressman Arrel R. Olaño for the misuse of his P7.72 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2007. Olaño had been convicted of three graft and three malversation charges together with...
President Marcos has commended Philippine government agencies and Kuwaiti authorities for their pursuit of justice for slain overseas Filipino worker Jullebee Ranara. (Photo courtesy of PCO) Marcos, who is currently in Singapore, made the statement following the conviction of Ranara's...
A Kuwaiti court has convicted the perpetrator behind the killing of Jullebee Ranara, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was raped, killed and burned by the son of her employer in January. The Juvenile Court of Kuwait sentenced 17-year-old Turki Ayed Al-Azmi to 15 years of...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion of former National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) regional director Jose Romeo C. Escandor to render community service instead of serving the six-month imprisonment imposed on him for sexual harassment in 2013. Despite the denial, however, the...
TACLOBAN CITY – A woman received two life sentences for sexually abusing minors, including her daughter, in exchange for money from online sex offenders. The Regional Trial Court Branch 10 in the municipality of Abuyog, Leyte found the accused guilty of qualified trafficking, child abuse, and...
