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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, February 7, 2006 |
| Negros Oriental |
 Raps
eyed vs. NBI agentsThey
did not coordinate with us: PNP Stiffer
penalties backed against sex trafficking 1
nabbed in buy-bust operation
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Raps eyed vs. NBI agents
The lawyer of the Pamplona Golf and Country Club in Pamplona town, Oriental Negros, yesterday said his clients are studying the possibility of filing charges for falsification of public documents, threats, and usurpation of authority against the six agents of the National Bureau of Investigation from Bacolod City whom he said raided the resort during the weekend.
Aside from that, lawyer Manolo Zerna also said his clients
were also considering filing administrative charges against Branch 7
Judge Simeon Dumdum of the Regional Trial Court of Cebu for issuing
the warrant. Zerna bared this, noting that the six agents, later identified
as Ed Kawada, Menci Mamaspas, Benjie Belleza, Francis Ramos, Syrus Alazan,
and Eric Plamco allegedly harassed his clients by serving what he called
a "questionable" search warrant. 
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They
did not "I love this province. I come from this province and I will protect it from bad elements." That was the response of Police Chief Inspector Julius Muņez, deputy police provincial director for Oriental Negros, to the report that he led policemen in beating up a team of NBI agents from Bacolod City at the Pamplona Golf and Country Club last Saturday (related story on page 1). Muņez insisted that the NBI agents did not coordinate with the Provincial Police Office before they disarmed the guards of the Pamplona Golf and Country Club, leading everyone in the area to doubt the identities of the armed men who were riding a Starex Van. NBI Bacolod chief Philip Pecache, however, yesterday insisted
that his men had coordinated with the Pamplona police. |
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Stiffer
penalties backed Dumaguete City Vice Mayor William Ablong yesterday lauded the filing of a bill in the House of Representatives that would impose stiffer penalties on those involved in pornographic and sex trafficking activities. House Bill No. 4996 filed by Partylist Rep. Emmanuel Joel Villanueva proposes to increase the penalty to P1 million and life imprisonment for persons confirmed to be engaged in obscene, pornographic and immoral activities. Ablong said many Filipino women are being exploited by unscrupulous
persons engaged in the sex trade. Majority of them have been forced
into prostitution because of poverty, he added. He said he will
be happy to such persons imprisoned for their immoral activities.
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