Former Department of Justice (DOJ) Undersecretary Fransisco Baraan
III has not yet returned to the country after his visit to US to receive
medical treatment, the DOJ said Wednesday.
In a text message, Justice Undersecretary Erickson Balmes said that
the Bureau of Immigration confirmed that Baraan, who was supposed to
return to the Philippines on October 23, is still in the US.
"As per verification with the Bureau of Immigration, former DOJ Usec. Baraan is supposed to return to the Philippines from his US trip on October 23; to date, he has not returned to the Philippines," Balmes said.
Baraan is one of the respondents in the drug trafficking complaint filed by the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) with the DOJ.
Baraan was accused of being involved in corruption and in the proliferation of illegal drugs in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) along with other officials of the Bureau of Corrections and then-Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
The DOJ earlier discovered, upon its issuance of a look out order against Baraan and other officials involved in the anomalies in the NBP, that he left the country last August, days before the House committee on justice began its probe on illegal drug trade inside the state penitentiary.
His eldest son Francis Frank Baraan IV said his father left the country for health and medical reasons last August 25, 2016.
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"As per verification with the Bureau of Immigration, former DOJ Usec. Baraan is supposed to return to the Philippines from his US trip on October 23; to date, he has not returned to the Philippines," Balmes said.
Baraan is one of the respondents in the drug trafficking complaint filed by the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) with the DOJ.
Baraan was accused of being involved in corruption and in the proliferation of illegal drugs in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) along with other officials of the Bureau of Corrections and then-Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
The DOJ earlier discovered, upon its issuance of a look out order against Baraan and other officials involved in the anomalies in the NBP, that he left the country last August, days before the House committee on justice began its probe on illegal drug trade inside the state penitentiary.
His eldest son Francis Frank Baraan IV said his father left the country for health and medical reasons last August 25, 2016.
The post Ex-DOJ Usec Baraan Still in US appeared first on Sun Star.
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