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November 1, 2008
Aksyon Radyo, the AM network of Manila Broadcasting Company, has five correspondents currently covering the US elections. They will be reporting on DZRH as well as their respective Aksyon Radyo stations – Laoag, La Union, Dagupan, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cebu, and Davao. Action comes to a head Wednesday, Nov. 5, which is the 4th in the US mainland. Listen to Balitang Bayan Numero Uno on DZRH on primetime, and all the other newscasts throughout the day. Check the main site for links to the respective Aksyon Radyo stations.
November 1, 2008
When he couldn’t fully explain where that 105,000 euros came from or who authorized the release of what he says was intelligence fund for the top cops’ travel allowance, Gen. Jess Versoza ordered charges filed against the retired PNP comptroller, Eliseo dela Paz, and three other subalterns at the PNP finance office. The other “euro generals”? Well, conveniently, it’s Dela Paz among those eight who has to bear the burden. That means he couldn’t get his retirement pay as the probe goes on. Poor Dela Paz. But who knows? He could have offered to be the sacrificial lamb, to save everyone else’s neck. For whatever consideration, we don’ know.
Sen. Mar Roxas, learning of Versoza’s action against Dela Paz and the other three while the senate deliberates on its next course of action on the scandal, called the charges “hogwash.”
Before the charges, Versoza tried the intelligence-equipment tack, saying the money was for the purchase of sensitive equipment that he couldn’t divulge in detail, because as you know, it’s always”neither confirm nor deny” when you talk about intel. Well, budget officials were quick to retort. There’s no such thing as “neither confirm nor deny” when you wanna buy police equipment, even intel equipment.
October 23, 2008
“Euro” generals
Posted by dzrhinteractive under Uncategorized | Tags: euro generals, interpol, Moscow, PNP |Leave a Comment
Have you heard about the Philippine “euro generals”? It’s about that big amount of money – some 105,000 euros – that Russian customs authorities saw in the baggage of one of the top Philippine police generals, when they checked in at Moscow’s international airport to go back to Manila, after attending the 77th Interpol Convention in St. Petersburg.
Last week, these police generals were all saying there was nothing illegal, nothing abnormal nor irregular, about them carrying some 102,000 euros (more or less 6.9 million Philippine pesos). Even their department secretary, DILG Sec. Ronaldo Puno, was firm in saying these generals will come home and clear everything about the huge cash they carried as “contingency fund” for a delegation of eight national police top brass.
Now, when the Philippine senate opened its probe into the scandal, no one among the top brass seemed willing to admit he knew how the money got through customs and got through aviation security when those generals left Manila for Moscow first week of October. Even General Versoza, the chief of the PNP, wasn’t willing to explain in detail where the money actually came from, and how his generals were able to take the money out of the airport. He was pointing at everyone else except himself, saying he was told by someone else that the money was OK.
Poor General Versoza. He’s just on his second month as Top Cop, and he’s got a big smelly scandal in his hands!
October 23, 2008
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