New Zealand native Vernon Wayne Gardiner walked away from jail last Friday after his compatriots back home pitched in via a TV program to raise over US$4,000 needed to restitute the amount he had gypped from a Filipino jobseeker in 2011.
A judge hearing a case of a 66-year-old Kiwi facing at least 20 years behind bars for estafa and illegal recruitment charges appealed to the New Zealand Embassy in Manila to assist its detained citizen settle his financial obligation to free him from jail.
Jailed Filipino migrant worker Rodelio Lanuza is a step closer to freedom as the Philippine government has deposited to the Saudi court its 700,000 Saudi Riyals or P7.6 million contribution to the blood money for his release, Vice President Jejomar Binay said.
Fearing further alleged abuses that might be committed by Malaysian authorities against evacuees from Sabah, a daughter of the Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III has asked the help of the Public Attorney’s Office to assist Filipinos who were prevented from leaving.
A German national who had been arrested and charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm was arrested again after he failed to appear in the hearings of his case.
A high-ranking US Embassy official monitoring the George Anikow murder case said the three-week-old trial on the US Marine officer’s killing “appears to me as very slow” and that the victim’s family is considering sending its own private lawyer to help the public prosecutors.
Bureau of Customs agents arrested on Wednesday a Filipino-American gun enthusiast for allegedly trying to smuggle in firearms parts at Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
The National Bureau of Investigation has sought the help of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and the Malaysian Embassy in arresting and having Manuel Amanllilio brought back to the Philippines for orchestrating the Aman Futures’ P12-billion pyramiding scam that duped thousands of Filipinos in Mindanao and parts of Visayas, a bureau official said.
President Aquino and Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf discussed intensifying trade relations between the Philippines and Switzerland during the two leaders’ bilateral talks held at the sidelines of 9th Asia-Europe Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.
Three Indian nationals were acquitted on Tuesday by a Manila court of charges that they kidnapped a suspected loan shark due to inconsistencies in the latter’s testimony.
Italian Ambassador to the Philippines Luca Fornari has expressed impatience over the slow pace of investigation, arrest and prosecution of suspects in the killing of Italian priest, Father Fausto Tentorio.
The husband of the 34-year-old overseas contract worker whose body arrived in a coffin here on Friday demanded for the results of the autopsy conducted on his wife who was electrocuted in Qatar sometime in June.
