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                    [Title] => JDV’s lawyers file  case vs opponents for vote-buying
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DAGUPAN CITY – Lawyers of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. filed a petition for the disqualification of congressional candidate Benjamin Lim and his son, mayoralty candidate Brian Lim, before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Manila on Friday.


Lawyer Jack Castañeda, head of De Venecia’s legal panel, filed the petition before the Law Department of the Comelec in Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 390924 [Title] => BI to deport 2 Taiwanese nationals [Summary] => The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday it will deport two Taiwanese nationals arrested by authorities in Silang, Cavite last week for swindling hundreds of millions of pesos both here and in their homeland.

Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said the suspects – Hsieh Hsin Lin, 53, and Peng Ching Ting, 44 – are detained at the bureau’s jail in Bicutan, Taguig City pending the resolution of estafa cases filed against them in Manila and Quezon City regional trial courts.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 386564 [Title] => Abra's Valera placed on hold-departure list [Summary] => The Bureau of Immigration has included Abra Gov. Vicente Valera in its hold departure list.

Immigration Associate Commissioner Roy Almoro said the hold departure order (HDO) against Valera was issued last Feb. 12 in compliance with the order of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 223 Judge Ramon Cruz stemming from the charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives lodged against the governor.

Almoro explained Valera will not be allowed to leave the country without the permission of the court.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 384355 [Title] => BI task force formed to hunt down fugitives [Summary] => The Bureau of Immigration has formed a special task force that will specifically hunt down foreign fugitives in the country.

Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said the new team, known as Fugitive Search Unit (FSU), is composed of six of the bureau’s best intelligence agents and will be under the command of BI Intelligence Divison.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 382988 [Title] => BI deports 5 aliens [Summary] => The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported in the past week five foreigners who were earlier arrested for various violations of Philippine immigration laws, it was learned yesterday.

Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said all five aliens were sent back to their respective countries pursuant to deportation orders issued by the bureau’s Board of Commissioners.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 381463 [Title] => Leviste placed on watchlist [Summary] => Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez ordered yesterday the Bureau of Immigration to place former Batangas governor Jose Antonio Leviste on its watchlist.

Gonzalez’s order to Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. follows his directive to Senior State Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco to determine whether the charge of homicide filed by the Makati City police against Leviste for the killing of his long-time aide Rafael de las Alas last Jan. 11 can be upgraded to murder.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 378367 [Title] => 24,000 former Pinoy citizens get dual citizenship [Summary] => Some 24,000 former Filipinos have reacquired their Philippine citizenship after being granted dual citizenship, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday.

Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. reported that a total of 23,946 applications for dual citizenship have been approved by the bureau as of Jan. 2.

Fernandez revealed that a total of 10,498 of the approved applications were filed with the main office of the bureau in Intramuros, Manila while the rest were filed with various Philippine consulates abroad.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 376274 [Title] => BI seals 2006 with deportation of 4 pedophiles [Summary] => The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is ending the year with the deportation of four foreign fugitives who were arrested in recent joint operations with various law enforcement agencies across the country.

Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said all four foreigners — an American, a German, a Briton and a Belgian — who are now detained at the bureau’s detention center in Bicutan, Taguig City, would be deported soon after the BI’s board of commissioners issues summary deportation orders against them.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374607 [Title] => German awaits deportation [Summary] => Operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and Philippine Center on Transnational Crimes (PCTC) have recently arrested a German fugitive wanted in his country for alleged sexual abuse of his adopted daughter.

Rudolf Keikut, 55, is currently detained at the BI jail in Bicutan, Taguig City while awaiting deportation proceedings.

He was arrested last Nov. 30 in Davao City.

Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said Keikut will be put in the bureau’s blacklist to prevent him from returning to the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374319 [Title] => BI officers trained to detect fraudulent travel papers [Summary] => Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. warned yesterday that international terrorists and other fugitives will now have a hard time slipping into the country’s airports after 240 immigration officers completed training on the detection of fraudulent travel documents.

In a statement, Fernandez said that since they started the Customer Service Excellence Training Program two years ago, some 240 immigration officers have finished the course.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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