Bacaltos to MGB: Did you receive bribe from ALQC?

Rosalie O. Abatayo 10/08/2018

Is it possible that the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-7) may have been bribed by Apo Land and Quarry Corp. (ALQC) prompting the agency to recommend the lifting of the cease and desist order against the latter’s…

Councilor dares mayor to prove P500K bribe offer

Rosalie Abatayo 07/29/2018

Opposition Councilor Raymond Alvin Garcia dared Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to show proof that he offered money to administration allied barangay captains in exchange for support to Mabolo Barangay Captain Niña Mabatid’s bid for the presidency…

Man arrested for trying to bribe police in Badian

Raul Constantine Tabanao 02/28/2018

An illegal logger was arrested after he tried to bribe the chief of police in Badian in exchange for the release of his cohorts and their cargo trucks. Joel Legara, 46, from Barangay Montañeza in Malabuyoc was…

BRIBERY TRY BACKFIRES

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Benjie Talisic, Rene F. Alima 03/30/2017

A market collector ended up in jail for trying to buy off police officers in Consolacion town who arrested his nephew in an anti-drug operation. Giovanni Pepito, 45, and a resident of Barangay Cansaga of the same…

MAO BA?

Editorial 02/21/2017

BRIBE CLAIM Local reporters were abuzz over reports that a top Palace official alleged that some reporters covering the Senate allegedly received $1,000 each in order to cover a press conference of a critic of President Rodrigo…

Chinese man walked out of BI detention in Clark

12/04/2016

One of the Chinese who reportedly fled from the custody of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Club Fontana casino in Clark, Pampanga, returned on Friday and denied bribing anyone to escape. In a statement, the…

Puzzle in the ERC

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 11/21/2016

“Isang malaking palaisipan” (great puzzle) was how one netizen described reports that Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Executive Director Francisco Villa Jr. took his own life owing to pressure in the approval of agency procurement contracts minus proper…

NBI denies cop tried to bribe them

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Chito O. Aragon 05/27/2015

NBI-7 Assistant Regional Director Augusto Eric Isidro denied a police officer tried to bribe him in exchange for the release of the four Korean nationals held for human trafficking. Isidro explained that PO1 Alvin Khan Tuadles simply…

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