Remulla seeks Bantag’s ouster as BuCor chief

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Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Friday said he will ask President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to dismiss suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag if he gets the chance. READ:

Bantag, who has been tagged as the mastermind in the murder of broadcast commentator Percival Mabasa, a.k.a. Percy Lapid, has refused to surrender and has issued statements attacking Remulla, saying he was being set up.

In exchange, Bantag said, ATOM will develop the NBP reservation and BuCor will receive 35 percent of the earnings in the development.The Justice Secretary noted that the JVA was “done as an independent republic of BuCor dealing with the private sector.” Remulla said he learned that the JVA was done in 2020, when President Rodrigo Duterte was still in office and when Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra was still Justice secretary. Remulla also pointed out that the BuCor Modernization Law cannot be used as basis for the JVA.

“Eventually my office found that the unsolicited proposal failed to comply with certain legal requirements, and we informed the Office of the Executive Secretary accordingly. Since then, we have not heard about this project. It might have been discontinued,” Guevarra said in a text message to reporters.

depth of 30 meters with a width of about 300 meters and it leads to where the headquarters of the director general is located.

 

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