{"id":156069,"date":"2018-03-12T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156069"},"modified":"2018-03-12T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T09:56:11","slug":"senate-frees-faeldon-from-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/12\/senate-frees-faeldon-from-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate frees Faeldon from detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After months of being detained, the Senate blue ribbon committee on Monday, March 12, finally ordered the release of former Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon from detention. (Photo<\/a>: Captain Nicanor Faeldon\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After months of being detained, the Senate blue ribbon committee on Monday, March 12, finally ordered the release of former Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon from detention.<\/p>\n

This development was announced by blue ribbon committee chairman Richard Gordon during the continuation of the hearing into the alleged smuggling of the P6.4 billion worth of shabu shipment from China and corruption at the Bureau of Customs (BOC).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will call you on your cognizance that when we ask you a question, there will be no more backtalking and you will answer the question directly,\u201d Gordon told Faeldon.<\/p>\n

Responding to the senator, the former Customs commissioner promised that he would no longer get involved in backtalking and will pay attention to Senate summons.<\/p>\n

Upon hearing Faeldon\u2019s answer, Gordon said \u201cAlright, so the committee chair hereby orders your release from incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’re hereby released subject to the fact that you will conduct yourself as we go on the hearings when we need to. Is that understood?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Gordon even asked Faeldon to flash a smile, saying he looks much better with one.<\/p>\n

Faeldon has been detained at the Senate since September 2017 for repeatedly refusing to appear in the committee\u2019s investigation into the controversial P6.4 billion drug haul from China in May.<\/p>\n

He was then transferred to the Pasay City jail after he finally showed up in the hearing. Faeldon said that he was \u201chappier\u201d to be placed in a tightly-packed jail cell, joining 108 other inmates, compared when he was still in the Senate detention cell.<\/p>\n

The former Customs commissioner was appointed as the new deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). Gordon urged President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider Faeldon\u2019s appointment, believing that the President has no business appointing the latter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIlang beses ba natin papatawarin yung nagco-<\/em>coup d\u2019etat\u00a0dito? Ilang beses ba natin papatawarin yung mga naloloko, tumatakas\u00a0‘pag nahuhuli<\/em>\u00a0(How many times are we going to forgive those who are carrying out coup d\u2019 etat here? How many times should we forgive those swindlers, running away when they get caught)?\u201d\u00a0Gordon said\u00a0on January 29.<\/p>\n

Gordon also stressed that the ex-commissioner seemed to live in \u201chis own world,\u201d even suggesting that he should visit a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n

Faledon took his oath before Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana last January 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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