The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday, Jan. 15, said it is ready to investigate allegations of bribery in the proposed people's initiative to amend the Constitution provided a complaint is filed and evidence is submitted. DOJ Assistant Secretary Jose Domoinic F. Clavano IV made the assurance...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to file in court until Friday this week criminal charges against 11 suspected New People’s Army (NPA) members who allegedly attacked government troops in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro last year. Prosecutor General Benedicto A. Malcontento on Wednesday, Jan....
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has approved the filing of criminal charges for alleged violations of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) against 11 suspected New People’s Army (NPA) members who reportedly ambushed government troops last year in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro. “This attack, which...
A new law is needed to revive the Philippine Sugar Corporation (PHILSUCOR) that was abolished in 2018 after 35 years from its creation in 1983 by the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In a legal opinion issued last Jan. 3 on request by Presidential Management Staff Senior Undersecretary...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday, Jan. 3, welcomed the Supreme Court’s (SC) issuance of the Rules on the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and related terrorism laws. In a statement, DOJ Assistant Secretary Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV said that the rules "provide the mechanism to...
Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla has doubted the presence in the Philippines of investigators of the International Criminal Court (ICC). If they are indeed in the country, said ICC investigators have the duty to inform the Philippine government, Remulla said. ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, Dec. 29, said it will challenge before a higher court the ruling of the Manila regional trial court (RTC) which granted bail to six accused in the cases of missing "sabungeros" (cockfight enthusiasts) in 2022. DOJ Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla said...
Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla dispelled rumors that he was confined in an intensive car unit (ICU) of a hospital. “That’s all political propaganda of some desperate people,” Remulla said during a press briefing at the Department of Justice (DOJ) “I was never in the ICU....
An additional complaint has been filed against police officials and non-commissioned officers who were reportedly involved in the "anomalous" anti-illegal drugs operations in Manila where 990 kilograms of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu were seized in 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Former senator Leila de Lima said the Department of Justice (DOJ) should allow the transfer of 11 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), who previously testified against her in drug cases, from the Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm in Occidental Mindoro to the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is holding temporarily the enforcement of a court order that directed the return to the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City of the 11 high-profile persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) who testified against former senator Leila M. de Lima in her drugs case. The...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has formally written a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue an immigration lookout bulletin order (ILBO) against Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, head of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC), the Name Above Every Name church who is currently facing allegations of human...
