{"id":140408,"date":"2017-12-19T04:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140408"},"modified":"2017-12-19T04:50:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:50:07","slug":"senate-detains-former-boc-chief-faeldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/19\/senate-detains-former-boc-chief-faeldon\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate detains former BOC chief Faeldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate decided to detain the former Bureau of Customs (BOC) Chief Nicanor Faeldon on Tuesday after the latter fulfilled his promise to not attend\u00a0the probe into the P6.4-billion drug smuggling scandal at the BOC.<\/p>\n<p>Faeldon announced last Friday that he will go to the Senate on Monday not to join in the investigation but to have himself arrested.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, Faeldon, with his garments and personal belongings, showed up at the Senate and headed straight to the Office of the Sergeant of Arms.<\/p>\n<p>According to Senator Richard Gordon, Chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, Faeldon is under \u201ctemporary incarceration for not following orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked how long Faeldon will be detained, Gordon said that it&#8217;s until he decides to participate in the investigation or until the senate says he may go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 09\/ 11 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate decided to detain the former Bureau of Customs (BOC) Chief Nicanor Faeldon on Tuesday after the latter fulfilled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}