The Standard - 2015 June 15 - Monday

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RotaRy club of manila newspapeR of the yeaR 2015 VOL. XXIX NO. 117 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 mONday : JUNE 15, 2015 www.manilastandardtoday.com editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Wang bo missing, his laWyer says By Christine F. Herrera

THE lawyer of suspected Chinese crime lord Wang Bo on Friday expressed fears for his client’s safety, saying he has been unable to see him since Congress began its probe Tuesday on allegations that Immigration officials had ordered his release in exchange for millions of pesos that went to bribing lawmakers into passing the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).

Early campaigning? A streamer supposedly rallying support for Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s advocacy for federalism has been put up on a coconut tree along Panay Avenue in Quezon City.

In an interview on radio dzRH, lawyer Dennis Manalo said his client may have been subjected to torture after he was isolated and denied access to counsel by authorities in Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig, since Tuesday. “With the current violation of his right to counsel, we fear for the safety of our client. I do not know what is happening to him anymore or what will happen to him. I have not seen him and authorities at Camp Bagong Diwa, where I last saw him and where he is being held, refuse to show him to us,” Manalo said. He demanded that the authorities produce Wang, so he could testify before the House panel investigating his case. “I was told that Mr. Bo Wang has been isolated. He was separated from other detainees. We have an anti-torture law. If a detainee was transferred and authorities made him feel he was about to be killed, that is torture. Next page

tandem in the works? VP laughs Marcos-Duterte mayor, who is known for his tough senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. By Macon R. Araneta on crime. The mayor has offered off sotto’s SPECULATION that Davao City policies Marcos said that like Duterte, federalism as an option to the Rodrigo Duterte might he supports federalism as a way to Moro Islamic Liberation Front if yarn about Mayor forge an alliance with Senator solve the country’s socio-economic the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the 2016 and political problems, particularly is not passed. nPC bets Marcos, chairman of the Senate elections was fueled Sunday, when in Mindnao. Duterte insists that his “listening local government committee, has

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the senator appeared on a Davao radio show with the mayor. Interviewed on the radio show “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa,” Marcos said he was a big fan of the

tour” around the country is not aimed at a presidential run in 2016, but at gaining support for federalism, a cause led by former

rejected the Palace-drafted BBL and says he will submit a substitute bill to correct its constitutional infirmities. Next page


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