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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 10) The Court of Appeals has ordered the Philippine National Police, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and other concerned agencies to remove Leyte Rep. Vicente Veloso’s name from the government’s March 2019 drug list.
In a decision promulgated on June 8, the court also directed the respondents the PNP, PDEA, Armed Forces of the Philippines, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, and Department of Interior and Local Government to destroy all documents, records and information related to the lawmaker’s inclusion in the narco list.
“They are also enjoined from further including the petitioner’s name in any publicized derogatory list that fails to follow due process,” read the decision penned by CA Associate Justice Apolinario Bruselas Jr.
By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published March 2, 2021 2:10pm
Updated March 2, 2021 2:31pm The Court of Appeals (CA) has set aside a Makati judge’s decision reinstating the rebellion case against former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV following the nullification of his amnesty in 2018. In a decision, the CA Sixth Division said Judge Elmo Alameda of the Makati City Regional Trial Court Branch 150 committed grave abuse of discretion when he refused to allow Trillanes to present testimonial evidence to prove that he applied and was granted amnesty in 2011. “The [trial court] limited itself only to hearing oral arguments and receiving affidavits,” the CA said in reversing Alameda’s orders in September and December 2018.