Albayalde seeks junking of raps over ‘ninja cops’

MANILA – Former Philippine National Police chief Police General Oscar Albayalde has asked the Department of Justice to dismiss the criminal complaints filed against him in relation to the “ninja cops” mess.


In his counter-affidavit submitted before the panel of prosecutors at the DOJ, the resigned PNP chief said that the complaint was “insufficient in form and substance” and lacked probable cause.


Albayalde added that the basis of his inclusion in the complaint, a “partial committee report” by the Senate committees that investigated the operation, “has not been signed or approved by a majority of all committee members as required by Senate rules.”


“The document is a mere scrap of paper that is unsigned, unverified, and unauthorized by the Senate’s own rules,” Albayalde said.


Albayalde also denied that he had called Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief and former Central Luzon police chief Aaron Aquino and former CIDG official Rudy Lacadin to influence them regarding the administrative cases against the 13 so-called “ninja cops.”


The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group has added Albayalde as a respondent in a complaint against 13 policemen allegedly involved in drug recycling in a drug raid in Pampanga in 2013.


He faces a complaint for misappropriating confiscated drugs in violation of the dangerous drugs law, graft, falsifying public documents, and failing to prosecute the policemen involved in an allegedly anomalous operation./PN

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