The contents of the Philippine apology for the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino Coast Guards were changed several times, showing the “insincerity of the Philippine government,” Taiwan’s representative to Manila said Monday.
Malacañang on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that Filipino coast guards had intentionally killed a Taiwanese fisherman in waters off Balintang Island in northern Philippines last week, triggering a major diplomatic row between the two countries.
It was self-defense. That’s how Philippine Coast Guard officers aboard a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel described their action during an encounter with a Taiwanese fishing boat off Balintang Island in northern Philippines last week.
Under heavy guard from the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police, the president and other executives of the fraudulent investment company Aman Futures were arraigned Thursday for syndicated estafa.
Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co has gone into hiding after learning that an Iligan City court had ordered his arrest in connection with the P12-billion Aman Futures pyramiding scam, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
No conspiracy, no local political supporter and no financier. “Based on an earlier investigation, the Kirams did not receive any political and financial support from politicians to initiate the Sabah standoff,” Virgilio Mendez, deputy director of the National Bureau of Investigation, told reporters Tuesday.
A Chinese national was arrested and an elderly man was taken into custody by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation in separate operations for alleged possession of shabu estimated to be worth P1.5 million in Marikina City, the head of the agency’s Counter Intelligence Division said on Wednesday.
Tension gripped a holding area of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport when a man said to be a ranking official of the Malaysian Royal Police barged into the room where a Philippine government delegation and Ponzi scheme operator Manuel Amalilio were staying and ordered the Filipinos to get out, a source who was present in the room told the Philippine Daily Inquirer Saturday.
Malaysian authorities on Friday stopped the deportation to the Philippines of alleged Ponzi scheme operator Manuel Amalilio as he was about to board a plane to Manila with National Bureau of Investigation agents.
“It was like a fiesta and everybody was happy,” a former agent of Aman Futures Group Inc. said of the early days of the company behind the multibillion peso scam that victimized up to 15,000 people from the Visayas and Mindanao.
The National Bureau of Investigation has issued a subpoena against Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Sy Co and his wife, Priscilla Ann, based on the syndicated estafa complaints filed by three of their alleged investors, a source from the bureau said.
Malaysian police are now looking for Manuel Amalilio, the alleged brains behind the Aman Futures investment scam who has been reported to be hiding in Kota Kinabalu, National Bureau of Investigation Director Nonnatus Rojas said on Friday.
