SC stands firm on TRO vs de Lima’s Watch List Order but it could be rendered moot and academic if Pasay RTC Judge issues warrant of arrest and hold departure order on Arroyo.
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The lawyer of the Commission on Elections on Friday filed electoral sabotage charges against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. and former Comelec election supervisor Lintang Bedol before the Pasay City Regional Trial Court.
Sen. Francis Escudero said once the judge issues a warrant of arrest all watchlist order and hold departure order in a separate on DOJ Memo circular 41 become moot and academic. Arroyo can be arrested. Electoral sabotage is non-bailable.
Why has she not filed a case vs the Arroyos after more than a year in office?Leila de Lima looked and sounded desperate in her early evening presscon trying to salvage the situation where the government was in danger of losing face in the struggle to make Gloria Arroyo accountable for her crimes against the Filipino people.
Defying the High Court’s temporary restraining order against her Watch Order List against the Arroyos, she ordered all agencies concerned not to allow the couple to exit the country because as far as she is concerned, the SC’s order cannot yet be implemented because she has not received it yet and she still has to file a motion for reconsideration.
The Supreme Court has voted 8-5 to release a temporary restraining order on the watchlist order against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a source told abs-cbnNEWS.com.
Only 13 magistrates voted.
The 8 are: Chief Justice Renato Corona, Presbitero Velasco Jr., Arturo Brion, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Roberto Abad, Martin Villarama, and Jose Perez.
The 5 who did not vote in favor of the decision are: Senior Justice Antonio Carpio, Associate Justices Maria Lourdes Sereno, Bienvenido Reyes, Estela Perlas-Bernabe and Jose Mendoza.
Akala ko ba masakit itong contraption. Bakit siya tumatawa? Photo from Yuko Takei's FB wall.Sa gitna ng ingay ng diskusyon kung papayagan si Gloria Arroyo at ang kanyang asawang si Mike na umalis ng bansa para magpagamot day (siyempre marami at mas maingay ang ayaw), hindi na marinig ang tanong na bakit ba hanggang ngayon wala pang kaso sa korte na nakasampa laban sa mag-asawang kinaiinisan ng maraming Pilipino?
Halos magdadalawang taon na ang administrasyong Aquino ngunit hanggang ngayon ay wala pang nakasampang kaso laban kay Arroyo. Lahat nasa preliminary investigation pa lang.Pinapag-aralan pa kung may “probable cause” ang akusasyun sa kaniya.
Palagi nga kinukumpara ng marami sa ginagawa ni Arroyo kay dating Pangulong Joseph Estrada na ilang buwan lang siya napaalis sa Malacañang nasampahan na kaagad ng kasong plunder at nakulong.
Hindi sana problema ang pagbawal ni Aquino kay Arroyo umalis ng bansa kung may kaso na hindi pwedeng piyansahan dahil kung sa ganun ang korte ang mag-isyu ng hold order sa kanya . Kaso wala.
Ang pinaghahawakan nina De Lima ay ang kwestyunable na memorandum circular na inisyu noon ng justice secretary ni Arroyo na si Alberto Agra na kahit nasa preliminary investigation pa lang ang kaso, pwedeng ilagay sa Watch List Order ang isang tao.
Offering taxpayers money for Gloria Arroyo's treatmentPresident Aquino should thank Gloria Arroyo for rejecting his offer to bring in medical specialists to examine her or else that would have created another round of controversy on the source of funds for that undertaking.Photo by Belna Cabasan. From Stella Arnaldo's wall.
In his press conference Wednesday, where Aquino affirmed the decision of the Department of Justice not to allow Arroyo to leave the country, he offered to bring in the medical specialists that his predecessor is supposed to be consulting abroad.
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“If necessary, we are prepared to answer the financial aspect of treating Ms Arroyo,” Aquino said.
Gloria Arroyo's latest photo released by her lawyers to media Wednesday.It’s no secret that I’m not an admirer of Gloria Arroyo and her husband, Mike.
I remain firm in my stand that she should be made accountable for the crimes that she has done to the Filipino people, foremost of which is the stealing of the presidency in 2001 and in 2004.
Invoking the primacy of national interest over individual rights, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima Tuesday slammed the door on Arroyo’s plan to seek medical treatment abroad.
“My order is a denial of the request for an allow-departure order (ADO),” De Lima announced at a news briefing.
The damage caused by her destruction of democratic institutions just to keep her hold on power deeply affected the mindset of the public. It will take many years to rebuild those institutions which took several administrations to build.
But I’m for allowing her to travel abroad for medical treatment.
The Philippine Constitution guarantees the right of every Filipino citizen to travel. Sec. 6 of the Bill of Rights states: “The liberty of abode and of changing the same within the limits prescribed by law shall not be impaired except upon lawful order of the court. Neither shall the right to travel be impaired except in the interest of national security, public safety, or public health as may be provided by law.”
Thanks to Inquirer for this photoAkala ba ng mga Arroyo ang kanilang ninakaw na kapangyarihan ay habang-buhay? Ano akala nila sa sarili nila, sobra-sobra ang swerte?
Nagre-reklamo na ngayon ang magkapatid na Pidal, este, Arroyo na masyado daw silang iniipit ng administrasyong Aquino.
Ito ay may kinalaman sa isinampang kaso ng tatlong senador laban kay Mike Arroyo, asawa ni Gloria Arroyo at 16 pa kasama doon mga opisyal, reirado at aktibo, ng Philippine National kaugnay sa pagbenta sa PNP ng second-hand na helicopter sa presyong bago.
Ang tatlong senador na nagsampa ng kaso ay sina Teofisto Guingona III, Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, Aquilino Pimentel III. Ang kasong kanilang isinampa ay paglabag ng Anti-graft and Corrupt Practices Act at Government Procurement Reform Act.
Thanks to VERA Files and Global Balita for photo.Former First Son and incumbent party-list congressman Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo and his wife Angela Montenegro will be charged with tax evasion, after the Department of Justice found probable cause to sue them.
The DOJ’s Task Force on Bureau of Internal Revenue Case (TBFBIR) released a resolution today saying it has found probable cause to charge Mikey and Angela with multiple counts of violation of Section 255 of the National Internal Revenue Code.
Section 255 penalizes taxpayers for failure to wilfully pay income taxes and file returns, or supply correct and accurate information, among other offenses. The penalties are imprisonment of between one and 10 years, and a fine of not less than P10,000.
The resolution was the DOJ’s response to the complaint the BIR filed in April 2011, which alleged that the couple underdeclared their income for the years 2004, 2006, and 2007.
Angela allegedly failed to file income tax returns from 2003 to 2009, and Mikey for the years 2005, 2008 and 2009.
Power-tripping PangandamanA constituent of Rep. Mikey Arroyo of Ang Galing Pinoy partylist, supposedly representing security guards and tricycle drivers, was mauled by his fellow member of the House of Representatives.Will he dare investigate a loyal ally?
The blotter report from the Quezon City Police District Detachment 9 in Anonas, Quezon City has this entry:
“Aug 31 935pm: This time and date SG Ricardo Bonayog y Gate 33 years old SG of Eagle Watch posted at Ayala Technohub UP Campus Diliman Quezon City appeared personally before this stn and requested to be placed on records to wit. That at 430pm Aug 31 2011 while he was performing his duty one Porsche Carrera colored silver was with plate number 8 appeared with the company of one Innova Red PCI 150 allegedly on said TDPO the occupant of the Porsche Carrera approached him and with reasons of his own got irked then boxed him several times causing him to fell on the ground in the presence of some witness.”
Wants to dig deeperSen. Antonio Trillanes was not exactly surprised that the “Mayuga Report” was a dud.
It actually did not add much more to the one page press statement that the Arroyo government released in April 2006, at the start of the Lenten week when everybody was either in a holy retreat or holiday mood, that cleared all the generals mentioned in the “Hello Garci” tapes of any complicity in the election cheating that allowed Arroyo to keep the presidential powers she grabbed in 2001 from elected President Joseph Estrada.
Trillanes, a former navy officer and imprisoned for more almost seven years for standing up to Arroyo, said the 15-page report, “ per see, as expected, was sanitized.”
But, he said, “the attachments which contain the testimonies of the resource persons and witnesses are loaded with revelations about some officers’ involvement in the election cheating in 2004.”
