{"id":208950,"date":"2019-04-08T22:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=208950"},"modified":"2019-04-08T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:10:04","slug":"bi-personnel-suspended-for-extorting-from-koreans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/08\/bi-personnel-suspended-for-extorting-from-koreans\/","title":{"rendered":"BI personnel suspended for extorting from Koreans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_196111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196111\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196111\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-1-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-1-768x741.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/26229732_1024835857655121_5467377170120402942_n-1-20x20.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perete said the incident, which involved up to 18 immigration officials, were also ordered to answer within seventy-two (72) hours the charges against them. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialbureauofimmigration\/photos\/a.149788088493240\/1024835857655121\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialbureauofimmigration\/\">Bureau of Immigration, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8211; Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra has suspended for three months Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers and employees who extorted PHP9.2M from Korean nationals.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, DOJ spokesman Undersecretary Markk Perete said Secretary Guevarra, &#8220;after evaluating the sworn statements of the Korean nationals as well as the documentary evidence provided by the BI, found a prima facie case against said officers and employees for grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Perete said the incident, which involved up to 18 immigration officials, were also ordered to answer within seventy-two (72) hours the charges against them.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15 Korean nationals alleged that on 6 March 2019, they were apprehended by BI agents and, under threat of detention, were forced to shell out various sums of money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, the Office of the Secretary is evaluating the proper course of action as regards job order contractors who allegedly participated in the extortion of the Korean nationals,&#8221; Perete said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211; Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra has suspended for three months Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers and employees &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":196111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208950","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208976,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208950\/revisions\/208976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}