Cruz: 8 dioceses also receive jueteng payola By Pat C. Santos and Angie M. Rosales 09/15/2010

Cruz: 8 dioceses also receive jueteng payola
By Pat C. Santos and Angie M. Rosales
09/15/2010

Presidential aides and buddies linked to millions of jueteng payoffs appear to be in good company of some payola-taking bishops, as Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz yesterday bared that eight dioceses in the country are recipients of jueteng payolas.

As this was bared, Sen. Miriam Santiago also scored Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) undersecretary Rico Puno, who has been given control and authority over the Philippine National Police (PNP) despite being under the DILG chief Jesse Robredo, saying that Puno’s withholding of the information on the “feelers” sent to him on jueteng payoffs by “emissaries” and friends was “improper” and questionable.

The senator stressed that the DILG appeared to have been remiss in taking appropriate action on these alleged overtures on jueteng payola to him.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile also questioned Puno’s statements saying that the DILG official should identify those alleged fixers or go-betweens who sought him out the past few months..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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