Court of Appeals
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed its decision that upheld the trial court’s ruling which lifted the asset preservation orders (APOs) issued against the bank accounts of casino junket operator Kam Sin Wong, known as Kim Wong, a firm and two other persons on suspicion that
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the bid by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to maintain the asset preservation orders (APO) previously issued by a Manila trial court against the bank accounts of entities linked to the 2016 Bangladesh heist. In a 32-page decision penned by Associate Justice Fernanda…
Published February 7, 2021, 10:21 AM
The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the life imprisonment and the P500,000 fine imposed by the trial court in 2019 on a foreigner from whom 2,815.5 grams of shabu, an illegal drug, was confiscated in a buy-bust operation conducted by the police in 2018 in Makati City.
Affirmed was the conviction of Shi Jianjia, a Chinese national who was identified in the trial court proceedings as “engaged in the smuggling and distribution of illegal drugs” in the Philippines.
Shi was arrested by members of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PNP-DEG) in Barangay Pio del Pilar in Makati City on a tip from an informant in late 2017 and after several days of surveillance. Confiscated from him, among other things, were two plastic packs containing more than 2.8 kilos of shabu, methamphetamine hydrochloride.