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In 2003, an administrative complaint was filed against him for ignorance of the law and inexcusable negligence, and charging him with deliberately causing the delay of the prosecution in Estafa entitled, “People of the Philippines, Plaintiff versus Ferdinand Santos, Robert John Sobrepeña, Federico Campos, Polo Pantaleon, and Rafael Perez De ...
A rent-sangla scam, also known as rent-tangay scam, is a confidence trick that began to be performed in the Philippines in early 2017.. According to local reports, victims of a so-called rent-sangla (rent-mortgage) scam said they later found out that they had fallen victim to fraudulent promises of rental income when they later found their vehicles had either been mortgaged or sold to ...
The case is considered as the largest investment scam in country's history. [25] In August 2024, the 7th Municipal Circuit Trial Court Liloan-Compostela, Cebu convicted Apolinario and KAPA’s Christopher D. Abad of estafa under Article 315, paragraph 2(a), Revised Penal Code. Aside from the imposed one year and one day imprisonment, the court ...
Simeon V. Marcelo (born October 21, 1953) is a Filipino lawyer and was the third Ombudsman of the Philippines.As the Ombudsman, he acted as protector of the people against the illegal and unjust acts of those who are in the public service.
Between April 2021 and January 2022, 34 cockfight enthusiasts (locally called sabungero; plural mga sabungero) from areas of Luzon, Philippines went missing. [1] Of the missing, 19 are from Laguna, six from Manila, another six from Batangas, and two from Bulacan. They have been referred to by the media as the missing sabungeros. [2] [3] [4]
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (R.A. 10175) was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III on September 12, 2012, becoming effective on October 3. [6] Among the actions criminalized by this law is "cyberlibel". [6] Six days after the law commenced, the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order to stop its implementation.
Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or ...