A clerk at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) pleaded guilty to lesser offenses, instead of graft and estafa through falsification of public documents, and was sentenced to one year imprisonment in 20 cases and three months and 11 days jail term in 20 other cases involving ghost...
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 convicted four former officials of the now-defunct Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC) of their graft, malversation, and malversation through falsification charges in the misuse of the P5.4 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Davao del...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the graft conviction of incumbent and former officials of Patnongon town in Antique and a private individual in the irregular transfer of ownership of the municipality's P9.9 million rice mill in 2007 and 2008. Denied were the motions for reconsideration filed by...
The Sandiganbayan has convicted former mayor Constantino Bernardo Navarro IV of Del Carmen town in Surigao del Norte for delay in the liquidation of the P3 million intelligence funds he took from the municipality in two tranches in 2010. Since the prosecution allowed Navarro to plead guilty to a...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has won its case filed against six miners in the Taal Volcano after a municipal court in Batangas found them guilty of illegal quarrying and extraction. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Monday welcomed the two-page decision penned by 5th...
A jury at a Federal trial of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn found singer R. Kelly guilty on all counts of racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, and kidnapping last Monday, Rolling Stone reports. According to a Department of Justice statement, the verdict can land Kelly “a mandatory...
Three Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong will be sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 7, after stealing valuables worth over HK$14 million from their employers. In a South China Morning Post (SCMP) report, the Filipina, who was identified as Carmelita Galay Nones, 47, took jewelery, watches, and gold...
ALEXANDRIA, United States -- Alexanda Kotey, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnapping cell dubbed the ''Beatles,'' pleaded guilty Thursday in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages. British Islamic State members El Shafee Elsheikh (L) and Alexanda Kotey (R)...
The communist rebels must be prosecuted and penalized for committing an international crime after it launched a landmine explosion that killed two people in Masbate, Malacañang said Tuesday. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque (File photo/Malacañang) Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the New...
Former Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay said the court ruling that declared former senator Antonio Trillanes IV guilty of libel is a reminder that a government position is not a license to destroy reputations. (Manila Bulletin File Photo / Antonio Trillanes Facebook page) He added that “courts will...
