The Sandiganbayan has ordered former Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) undersecretary Narciso B. Nieto to present his evidence starting on Nov. 28 on graft and malversation of public funds cases filed against him in the alleged misuse of the P20 million priority development assistance...
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the criminal charges filed against businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, her employee, and four former officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in the alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2004 due to "vexatious, capricious, and...
Three Filipinos, who were recruited as call center agents in Thailand but were finally transported to Myanmar and forced to work as scammers in cryptocurrency trading, have been repatriated to the Philippines. Just like previous victims of human trafficking, Immigration Commissioner Norman...
Again, the Sandiganbayan has convicted the now detained businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles of graft and malversation of public funds and sentenced to life imprisonment. This time, she was found guilty in the misuse of the P35 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Ilocos Sur 1st...
The Sandiganbayan has denied anew the motion of Jessica Lucila "Gigi" Reyes, former chief of staff of then Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, to file a demurrer to evidence and seek the dismissal of her plunder charges on alleged weakness of the prosecution's evidence to sustain a conviction. With...
The Sandiganbayan has decided to resolve the plea of former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile to dismiss his plunder case simultaneously with its main decision involving other accused in the alleged misuse of the former senator's Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) from 2004 to 2010....
The Sandiganbayan acquitted former South Cotabato congressman Arthur Pingoy Jr. but convicted detained businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles in all charges of graft and malversation of public funds filed in the misuse of the then legislator's P20.91 million Priority Development Assistance fund...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning the public against dealing with three unlicensed businesses who have been soliciting unauthorized investments online. The SEC released advisories on its investigations of the entities identified as 888 Partners Corp. Budgetarian Online Shop,...
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...
GMA talents Mikee Quintos and Paul Salas were at the Makati City Prosecutor’s Office on Monday to file an estafa complaint against a cryptocurrency group. According to a "24 Oras" report, the celebrity couple, along with seven others, filed the complaint after supposedly being duped out of 8...
BACOLOD CITY – Four policemen in this city are being investigated for their alleged involvement in a P15-million Philippine National Police recruitment scam in La Castellana, Negros Occidental. Police Col. Noel Aliño, Bacolod police director, in a media interview, said that these policemen...
One of the several accused in the so-called "pastillas scam" reportedly perpetrated by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers and personnel at the airports has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense and was meted out a P5,000 penalty. Immigration Officer II Asliyah A. Maruhom was initially...
