+ Follow Extortion Tag
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[Title] => Tulo ka team enforcers gitaktak
[Summary] => Subling gipalanog sa Mandaue City Government ang ilang zero-tolerance policy batok sa bribery, extortion, ug tanang porma sa kurapsyon sa mga hiwing binuhatan sa pipila ka kawani sa city hall.
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[Title] => Extortion case ni Mabanta, iimbestigahan ng Kamara
[Summary] => Isang resolusyon ang nakatakdang ihain ng resolusyon ni Tingog party-list Rep. Jude Acidre kasama ang 40 iba pang miyembro ng Kamara de Representantes para imbestigahan ang umano’y extortion incident na kinasasangkutan ng grupo ni Peanut Gallery Media Network (PGMN) founder Franco Mabanta kay dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
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[Title] => Socmed operator nabbed for extortion try on Romualdez
[Summary] => The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested political content creator Franco Mabanta on Tuesday night in Pasig for allegedly extorting P300 million from former speaker Martin Romualdez.
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[Title] => Mabanta arrest draws attention to years of support for Marcos, Duterte
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[Title] => Socmed operator Franco Mabanta nabbed for alleged Romualdez extortion
[Summary] => (Updated) The NBI said Mabanta was arrested in an entrapment operation in a P300 million extortion attempt case.
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[Title] => Ex-BFP personnel guilty sa pangingikil - korte
[Summary] => Pinatawan ng Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court ng isang taong pagkabilanggo at multa na P500,000 ang isang dating empleyado ng Bureau of Fire Protection matapos mapatunayang guilty sa paglabag sa Republic Act No. 11032 o Ease of Doing Business Law.
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[Title] => 'Sabungeros' case: Atong Ang files criminal raps, says 'Totoy' tried to extort P300M
[Summary] => Gaming tycoon Atong Ang filed several criminal complaints against self-proclaimed whistleblower Julie Patidongan and his former employee Alan Batiles, also known as Brown, before the Mandaluyong City Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, July 3.
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[Title] => Traffic violators turn out to be con men who use Liza Marcos' name
[Summary] => A blinker violation led to a bigger bust for the police's highway authorities.
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[Title] => NCRPO chief temporarily relieved amid extortion probe
[Summary] => National Capital Region Police Office chief Major General Sidney Hernia has been temporarily relieved from his post for 10 days as part of an investigation into an alleged extortion incident during a police raid in a Manila scam hub.
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[Title] => NCRPO chief, 14 pulis inireklamo ng extortion
[Summary] => Nagsampa ng reklamo ang apat na Chinese national laban kay National Capital Region Police Office acting chief Major General Sidney Hernia at 14 iba pang pulis kaugnay sa umano’y extortion kasunod nang raid sa Century Peak Tower sa Malate, Maynila, kamakailan.
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[AuthorName] => Ludy Bermudo
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