PRESS STATEMENT BI PUTS ITS MEN ON ALERT (HDO AGAINST SEN. ESTRADA, SEN. REVILLA ET AL.) Immigration Commissioner Siegfred B. Mison immediately ordered the enforcement of the Hold Departure Orders (HDO) issued by the Sandiganbayan against Senators Jinggoy Estrada, Bong Revilla and 34 others charged with graft over the highly controversial pork barrel scandal. Mison put to task Bureau of Immigration (BI) personnel assigned at the country’s international airports and seaports to immediately put under their care those persons named in the HDOs. An HDO prevents an individual from leaving the country. Under the law, government is empowered to prevent the departure of a person while his case is being tried by the courts. The HDOs were issued by the Sandiganbayan 5th division Justices Roland B. Jurado, Alexander G. Gesmundo and Alex L. Quiroz which handles the case of Estradas group and the 1st division Justices Efren N. De La Cruz, Rafael R. Lagos and Napoleon E. Inoturan. Estrada, Revilla and 34 others, including Janet Lim-Napoles, are facing plunder and/or graft charges over the alleged irregularities in the disbursement of Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), otherwise known as the pork barrel fund amounting to multi-billion pesos. Mison said the subjects of the HDO, along with Estrada, Revilla and Napoles, includes: Pauline Labayen, Estrada’s former girl Friday, former DBM Undersecretary Mario Relampagos, Rosario Nuñez, Lalaine Paule, Marilou Bare, Allan Javellana, Rhodora Mendoza, Maria Julie Villaralvo-Johnson, Victor Roman Cacal, Maria Ninez Guanizo, Romulo Relevo, John Raymund De Asis, Richard Cambe, Ronald John Lim, Antonio Ortiz, Dennis Cunanan, Francisco Figura, Rosalinda Lacsamana, Marivic Jover, Myla Ogerio, Eulogio Rodriguez, Laarni Uy, Consuelo Lilian Espiritu, Evelyn De Leon, Encarnita Christina Munsod, Gondelina Amata, Emmanuel Alexis Sevidal, Ofelia Ordonez, Sofia Cruz, Chita Jalandoni, Gregoria Buenaventura, Jocelyn Piorato, and Evelyn Sucgang.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:46:54 +0000
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