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                    [ArticleID] => 74908
                    [Title] => Ombudsman personnel rally behind Gutierrez
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                    [DatePublished] => 2008-07-24 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [SectionName] => Cebu News
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                    [ArticleID] => 179154
                    [Title] => Chavit: I’m no jueteng  operator
                    [Summary] => Former Ilocos Sur governor Luis "Chavit" Singson denied yesterday running any illegal gambling operation in the Visayas as alleged by a National Police Commission (Napolcom) report.


In a radio interview, Singson said the report was baseless and accused the camp of deposed President Joseph Estrada of spreading lies to discredit him.

He said Napolcom vice chairman Rogelio Pureza "maybe took a bribe" to put out the report.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 179035 [Title] => Ombudsman to probe Chavit’s ‘illegal gambling operations’ [Summary] => The Office of the Ombudsman will investigate a National Police Commission (Napolcom) report that former Ilocos Sur governor Luis "Chavit" Singson is involved in an illegal gambling operations.

A Sept. 16 memorandum from Napolcom vice chairman Rogelio Pureza to Interior Secretary and concurrent commission chairman Joey Lina Jr. said Singson is among 12 people behind illegal gambling operations, including the popular jueteng lotteries, in six regions across the country.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177613 [Title] => Probe on Velarde account blocked by bank secrecy law [Summary] => Prosecutors in the criminal cases against ousted President Joseph Estrada cannot dig deeper into the controversial Jose Velarde account because of restrictions of the Bank Secrecy Law.

Acting Ombudsman Margarito Gervacio said they were only able to track down transactions up to the second and third chains of fund transfer at the Equitable PCI Bank.

Gervacio said the Bank Secrecy Law prohibits investigators from looking further into the bank records.

Bank officials can invoke the law to stop them from scrutinizing bank documents, he added.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175696 [Title] => ‘They’re not our employees’ [Summary] => Las Piñas City Mayor Vergel "Nene" Aguilar has clarified that the eight executives from the Office of the Registry of Deeds in Las Piñas accused of plunder by the Ombudsman are not in any way connected with the city government.

"The appointment of personnel in the Registry of Deeds does not involve the city government, and the mayor is not even consulted," Aguilar said in a statement.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175001 [Title] => Bribery raps filed vs 10 PNP officials [Summary] => Police Director Reynaldo Acop and nine other police officials were charged yesterday with direct bribery before the Sandiganbayan.

Acting Ombudsman Margarito Gervacio said Acop was liable for "command responsibility and conspiracy" for the actions of his men who are accused of receiving P3 million and 10 kilos of shabu in exchange for the freedom of six Chinese nationals suspected of drug trafficking.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175023 [Title] => Las Piñas exec, 8 others face plunder charge [Summary] => Acting Ombudsman Margarito Gervacio approved yesterday the filing of criminal charges against the Las Piñas register of deeds and eight others in connection with an alleged P95.8 million tax scam.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174543 [Title] => Gervacio inhibits self from probe on Zuño [Summary] => Acting Ombudsman Margarito Gervacio has inhibited himself from the investigation of a graft case against Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito Zuño, one of his rivals for the position of chief government graft buster.

Gervacio said he will assign the case to Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Primo Miro.

"I will only look into the matter," he said. "But to avoid any suspicion, I will inhibit myself from the investigation."
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173781 [Title] => PMP: File perjury raps vs Chavit [Summary] => The opposition Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) challenged yesterday the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Office of the Ombudsman to charge former Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis "Chavit" Singson with perjury for allegedly "continuously lying" in his testimonies in the trial of jailed former President Joseph Estrada.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173621 [Title] => Sandiganbayan freezes all assets of Estrada [Summary] => The Sandiganbayan has ordered a freeze on all the assets of ousted President Joseph Estrada and his co-defendants in his plunder trial.

Reacting to the court order, Estrada denied acquiring properties illegally during his 31-month stay at Malacañang.

"Let me put on record that I have not bought a single property since I became president," he said in a one-page statement to the press. "My conscience is perfectly clear on this matter."
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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