HOT OFF THE PRESS: The Zamboanga Post Newspaper Feb. 17-23, 2020

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Feb. 17-23, 2020

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More eMedia charges vs. Beng dismissed

THE OFFICE of the Ombudsman dismissed two more cases filed by eMedia (Television) against Zamboanga Mayor Beng Climaco for lack of probable cause.

The two cases were filed by eMedia on March 13, 2018. Graft Investigation and Prosecution Officer Vivian Jumilla signed the resolution dated August 29, 2018 and was only received by City Hall recently. 

HOT OFF THE PRESS: The Zamboanga Post Newspaper Feb.10-16, 2020

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Beng wins legal battle, Ombudsman junks eMedia charges

MAYOR BENG Climaco has won over the cases filed against her and several others by cable television channel eMedia over a closure order by the local government for operating without a business permit.

The Office of the Ombudsman dismissed two cases filed by eMedia in December 17 against Climaco, City Administrator Marie Angelique Go and members of the City Teodyver Arquiza, Elbert Atilano, Al-Jihan Edding, Juan Climaco Elago II, Tungkuh Hanapi, Cesar Jimenez, Charlie Mariano, Josephine Pareja and Jimmy Villaflores.

Muslim lawmakers want probe on alleged Hajj fraud schemes

'Pilgrims support House Resolution 611'

MUSLIMS ARE supporting a proposed probe on alleged fraudulent schemes in the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia, saying, there had been persistent reports and complaints from pilgrims who paid huge amount of money for services and accommodations, but got less and worse, some had been left to fend for themselves in Mecca.

Muslim lawmakers Shernee Tambut, of the Kusug Tausug partylist group; and Samier Tan, of Sulu province, have filed House Resolution Number 611 directing the Committee of Muslim Affairs to conduct an investigation in aid of legislation in order to implement remedial measures that will put a quietus to the endless miseries being experienced by Muslim Filipino pilgrims.

Dismissed Zambo town mayor shot

PAGADIAN CITY – Motorcycle gunmen shot Wednesday and fatally wounded a former town mayor in Lanao del Norte’s Bacolod town, security officials said.

Officials said Nacianceno Pacalioga Jr, who served as mayor and vice mayor in Dumingag town in Zamboanga del Sur province, was rushed to a hospital in Iligan City, but his condition remains unknown and police said it is investigating the motive of the attack.

Capt. Clint Antipala, a spokesman for the 1^st Infantry Division, said Pacalioga was shot multiple times by two gunmen in the village of Esperanza. “Mayor Nacianceno Pacalioga was shot several times while having personal necessity by the roadside. Victim was brought to Sanitarium Hospital in Iligan City for medical treatment,” Antipala said.

Pacalioga was dismissed the Ombudsman for falsification of official document and serious dishonesty by deliberately omitting several real properties from his 2011, 2012, and 2014 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth or SALN after he failed to declare 10 parcels of land located in different villages of Dumingag. (Mindanao Examiner)

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Sandiganbayan junks motion to dismiss raps vs. Cebu lawmaker

FOR LACK OF merit, the Sandiganbayan denied the motion of former Cebu governor and now Representative Gwendolyn Garcia seeking to dismiss the criminal cases filed against her over the alleged irregular purchase of 10 parcels of land in Cebu province during her term as governor.

 

The Sandiganbayan Second Division, in a 12-page resolution dated Nov. 19, 2018, denied Garcia's motion seeking the dismissal of the graft and technical malversation cases filed against her, on the ground of alleged violation of her constitutional right to speedy disposition of cases.

 

In her motion, Garcia argued that in violation of her constitutional right to speedy disposition of cases, the criminal cases filed against her have been pending for seven years before the Sandiganbayan since she received the order from the Office of the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) on March 16, 2011.

 

She added that so far, the prosecution has presented only five witnesses out of its 78 intended witnesses. Garcia claimed that the delay was caused by “flip-flopping” in the trial strategy of the prosecution as shown by its March 21, 2017 compliance, where it increased the prosecution witnesses from 43 to 78.

 

Thus, for its lack of preparation, the anti-graft court had allegedly reprimanded the prosecution during the Nov. 15, 2017 hearing. She added that the delay of two years in the investigation and delay of more than five years in trial, or a total of seven-year delay, caused her and her family irreparable and unquantifiable damage.

 

In its ruling, the Sandiganbayan noted that from the time the complaints were filed by the Ombudsman in 2010, it took the Ombudsman a little over two years to conclude its investigation and correspondingly file the cases in 2012. “Such length of time appears reasonable considering the number of respondents involved in the investigation, the documents gathered by the Ombudsman, and the issues for the latter’s determination,” the anti-graft court said.

 

The Sandiganbayan said that from the time the cases were filed before the Second Division on July 19, 2012, accused was arraigned only on March 22, 2013 and the pre-trial conference was held only on Feb. 2. 2016. “However, conspicuously absent from accused Garcia’s account are the intervening motions which she filed before and after her arraignment,” the anti-graft court said. “In sum, the present motion lacks merit as there is no vexatious, capricious and oppressive delay both in the Ombudsman investigation and trial of these cases,” it added. (Perfecto Raymundo, Jr.)

 

  

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