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| Robredo was probing USec Puno's involvement in questionable arms deal for the SAF | |
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| seWer Rat | Sep 7 2012, 07:48 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/07/12/robredo-probing-puno-arms-deal-crash MANILA, Philippines – Prior to his fatal plane crash last August 18, Jesse Robredo was investigating the procurement of high-powered rifles which involved Interior and Local Government Secretary Rico Puno. ABS-CBN News was able to secure a copy of the Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) report on the planned purchase of assault rifles by the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force that involved two procurements of nearly P178 million and P213 million. The documents show that Robredo received the report on August 8, less than two weeks before the fatal plane crash off Masbate. ABS-CBN News sources said this report is among the sensitive documents that were in Robredo's condominium unit at the time of his death. This is the same condo unit that Puno and some police officials allegedly tried to access on August 19, a day after the plane crash. |
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| icefrog | Sep 8 2012, 01:12 AM Post #2 |
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tsk, tsk, tsk. He is obviously being investigated for being a possible "padrino" for the Israeli bid. |
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| seWer Rat | Sep 11 2012, 01:10 PM Post #3 |
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P391-M PNP rifle deal scrapped http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/11/12/p391-m-pnp-rifle-deal-scrapped ANILA, Philippines – A questionable P391-million procurement of assault rifles for the police by the Department of the Interior and Local Government has been scrapped, but an investigation into the matter will continue so as to dispel suspicions of a cover-up for DILG Undersecretary Rico Puno, Malacañang said yesterday. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, however, could not say if Puno was a subject of the investigation or who were being investigated. Lacierda said the reports on the probe were confidential. A bigger deal for pistols for the police will push through. The late interior secretary Jesse Robredo was reportedly investigating the procurement of 1,800 assault rifles from an Israeli firm before his death on Aug. 18. Puno reportedly wanted the deal exempted from public bidding. The deal was scrapped on Aug. 31. “There was no cover-up. Just to make it clear… there was an investigation,” Lacierda said. “Nobody is untouchable in this administration.” Lacierda said President Aquino had ordered a probe on the bidding process and not on the persons involved. Lacierda said Aquino made this clear in an interview with the media in Vladivostok, Russia. The procedure had to be stopped after the President personally noticed that the prices for the guns were much higher than those on the Internet. Lacierda said the rifles that the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) were planning to bid out were priced at P80,000 each or much higher than those quoted in the President’s Google check. “So the DILG was asked, what’s the competence of Bids and Awards (Committee)? So he is looking into the process itself. He was investigating the process. But in the meantime, while investigating the process, he already told Secretary Jesse Robredo to stop that bidding and it was stopped,” Lacierda said. Lacierda said that based on the President’s own Google search, the price of the rifle should only be at most P40,000 apiece and not P80,000. The original price of the rifle, Lacierda said, was P150,000, and then it went down to P119,000. “Then when it was being considered by this administration, it’s only P80,000. So presumably, the prices went down but when President Aquino searched on Google, the price was already less than P80,000… around P40,000, so he had some questions… Why is the bid price P80,000?” Lacierda said. “The investigation continues but not the bidding. Not for Glock. Glock is a pistol. Glock is not the problem. It’s the rifle,” Lacierda said. Asked if newly appointed Interior Secretary Roxas would continue with the investigation, Lacierda said yes and reiterated that “what will not continue is the bidding.” |
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| dewey | Sep 11 2012, 04:44 PM Post #4 |
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from what i heard the glock deal could also be in danger. glock austria already had suspended dealings with phl due to corrution in pnp and its commercial partner in the past. the bid was not authorized by glock austria and thus there will be no way those pistols be delivered as the glock distributor listed with the local partner is also not authorized to export their glocks. if this is true, the local partner should be banned in further deals with the government or even have its license revoked due to its illegal ways walang patawad talaga mga mokong na mga to. dapat sa kanila sa kulungan ang bagsak!
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| seWer Rat | Sep 11 2012, 04:46 PM Post #5 |
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If that is so, where did the local Glock distributor sourced the 28000 Glocks it has already shipped in country? Can a distributor just secure thousands of Glocks without authority from the main office in Austria? |
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| dewey | Sep 11 2012, 07:13 PM Post #6 |
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if im not mistaken, the shipped pistols were from the US and the exports are unauthorized. so, may dumating na pala na marami? if the reports are true, i wonder what the pnp / dilg / grp will do with the matter regarding the unauthorized pistol export? ano kaya gawin ng mother company? smear campaign lang kaya to ng losing bidders? ang gulo!
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| dewey | Sep 12 2012, 01:13 AM Post #7 |
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trust trade denies any glocks entering the country, yet - philstar |
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if the reports are true, i wonder what the pnp / dilg / grp will do with the matter regarding the unauthorized pistol export? ano kaya gawin ng mother company? smear campaign lang kaya to ng losing bidders?
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