{"id":222512,"date":"2019-07-11T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T23:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222512"},"modified":"2019-07-11T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T23:08:36","slug":"duterte-may-fire-50-to-70-in-customs-over-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/11\/duterte-may-fire-50-to-70-in-customs-over-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte may fire 50 to 70 in Customs over corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222513\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/640px-WTMP_PhotoPhilia_D9_Bureau_of_Customs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222513\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/640px-WTMP_PhotoPhilia_D9_Bureau_of_Customs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/640px-WTMP_PhotoPhilia_D9_Bureau_of_Customs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/640px-WTMP_PhotoPhilia_D9_Bureau_of_Customs-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Customs Building, Manila (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=14645199\">Photo By PhotoPhilia, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Not just four, but around 50 to 70 officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) may face dismissal over corruption allegations, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo bared this after President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night ordered the \u201cfreezing\u201d of Customs officials and employees but did not disclose their names.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo explained that placing the personnel in \u201cfreezer\u201d meant that they will be placed on \u201cfloating\u201d status pending administrative and criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying what the President meant by \u201cdark times ahead\u201d in a recent speech, Panelo said aside from terrorism and illegal drugs, the chief executive was also referring to widespread corruption particularly in the BOC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Talaga namang maraming<\/em>\u00a0(There really are) dark times ahead,\u00a0<em>nandiyan yung terorismo, nandiyan yung<\/em>\u00a0war on drugs,\u00a0<em>nandiyan yung<\/em>corruption &#8212;\u00a0<em>kita mo yung sa<\/em>\u00a0Customs\u00a0<em>o biglang ubod ng dami<\/em>\u00a0(there\u2019s terrorism, there\u2019s the war on drugs, there\u2019s corruption &#8212; you see in Customs there\u2019s suddenly so many),\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I gather,\u00a0<em>mga 72 yata tatanggalin niya<\/em>\u00a0(around 72 could be facing dismissal) or are facing administrative charges.\u00a0<em>Ganun karami<\/em>\u00a0either 72 or 62,\u00a0<em>di ko na malaman<\/em>\u00a0exact number (That\u2019s how big, either 72 or 62 I don\u2019t know the exact number).\u00a0<em>Mahigit<\/em>\u00a0(over) 50. Less than 100.\u00a0<em>Ganun karami ang<\/em>\u00a0involved\u00a0<em>sa<\/em>\u00a0corruption (That\u2019s how many are involved in corruption),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said a source may have tipped BOC Commissioner Rey Leonardo \u201cJagger\u201d Guerrero about personnel involved in corruption and called for a probe.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAng pagkakaalam ko may nagsumbong kay<\/em>\u00a0Commissioner Guerrero\u00a0<em>at inimbistagahan niya. Maraming anomalya<\/em>\u00a0involving certain officials (What I know is there is someone who tipped Commissioner Guerrero and he conducted an investigation. There is a lot of anomaly involving certain officials),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that Guerrero still enjoys the President&#8217;s trust and confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Not just four, but around 50 to 70 officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) may face &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":222513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222512","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=222512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222514,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222512\/revisions\/222514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}