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GUDANI AND BALUTAN
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[Title] => Gudani on trial: A small price to pay
[Summary] => A retired Marine general who could end up facing a court-martial for spilling the beans on the alleged fraud in the May 2004 elections declared yesterday his prosecution "is a small price to pay in doing service to God and country."
Retired Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani made the statement in reaction to the final Supreme Court (SC) ruling last Wednesday that could pave the way for his court-martial together with Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => Court-martial of ‘Garci’ whistle-blowers OK’d
[Summary] => The President and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has the constitutional authority to prevent AFP members from testifying before Congress, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-05 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 359010
[Title] => Esperon confirmation deferred
[Summary] => The confirmation of Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon’s four-star rank was withheld after he failed to attend a hearing of the Commission on Appointments yesterday.
Rep. Jurdin Jesus Romualdo, chairman of the CA committee on national defense, said Esperon will not be included in today’s plenary approval of some 51 military officers, ranks ranging from colonel to major general.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-20 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘GMA can stop AFP from facing Congress’
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Voting 13-0, the Supreme Court (SC) declared yesterday that President Arroyo, as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), has the constitutional authority to prevent any member of the military from testifying in a congressional inquiry.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => SC: Let trial of Garcia case proceed
[Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) ordered yesterday the Sandiganbayan to start proceedings in the forfeiture case against retired Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia.
The former Armed Forces comptroller has been charged with acquiring ill-gotten wealth before the anti-graft court.
In a three-page en banc resolution, the high court dismissed Garcia’s petition seeking to stop the Sandiganbayan from hearing the ill-gotten wealth case filed against him by the Office of the Ombudsman.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => SC junks Gudani suit versus GMA
[Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) dismissed yesterday a case against President Arroyo on grounds that she is immune from lawsuits.
But the SC ordered her co-respondents to answer within 10 days the petition of two Marine officers questioning the validity of an executive order banning civilian and military officials from appearing before Congress without presidential clearance.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-18 00:00:00
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[Title] => AFP summons Gudani, Balutan for defying GMA
[Summary] => Military prosecutors have summoned retired Marine Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani and Marine Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan to appear before a pre-trial hearing at the Judge Advocate General’s Office (JAGO) on Friday and submit their counter-affidavits.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => Military pre-trial of Gudani, Balutan starts
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Military authorities are ready to charge retired Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani and Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan who are facing court-martial for testifying before the Senate without prior clearance from President Arroyo.
However, Col. Tristan Kison, Armed Forces public information office chief, said "with respect to Brig. Gen. Gudani’s benefits, the AFP shall promptly grant the retired general’s pension claims, which have been put on hold, upon the TJAG (The Judge Advocate General)’s final resolution of the AW65 case filed against him."
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => AFP to give recommendation on Gudani-Balutan case this week
[Summary] => The military’s Provost Marshal will submit within the week before the Judge Advocate General Office (JAGO) its recommendations for the pretrial investigation of Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani and Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan for defying their Commander-in Chief in testifying before the Senate without permission.
Military information chief Lt. Col. Buenaventura Pascual said investigators have already found strong evidence to warrant the pretrial investigation against the two Marine officers.
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[Title] => Gudani, Balutan face AFP probe
[Summary] => Two Marine officers ordered court-martialed for defying a presidential directive by testifying in a Senate investigation last week submitted themselves before military investigators yesterday.
But upon the advice of their lawyers, Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani and Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan invoked their right against self-incrimination when the pretrial investigation turned out to be a military fact-finding probe.
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