The Sandiganbayan has denied the disqualification of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) of the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) in handling the civil forfeiture case filed against businessman Ernest de Leon Escaler. Escaler is a respondent in the civil case docketed as SB-14-CVL-0002 for...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has dismissed for lack of jurisdiction the petition filed by an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) against the Bureau of Customs (BOC) which forfeited his luxury vehicle in 2018. The case started when OFW Allan U. Garcia sought to import his white 2012 Lamborghini...
A Manila court has forfeited the more than P500,000 cash that operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) had confiscated from two suspected communist rebels in Tacloban City two years ago. CIDG director Police Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said the ruling of the Manila court is a...