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SIX persons were arrested by operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for allegedly “selling” positions in the Bangsamoro parliament for millions of pesos.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nabbed were Diahn Dagohoy, Bolkisah Datadacula, Alejandro Lorino Jr., Joseph Catunao, Leomer Abon and Tita Natividad.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The six were caught in an entrapment operation at the Manila Hotel on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to NBI Director Jaime Santiago, a complaint was filed Thursday before the office of the Special Task Force (STF) and Cybercrime Division (CCD), alleging that on Dec. 29, 2024, Dagohoy contacted the complainant and offered him a seat as a member of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARRM) Parliament for P8 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The complainant alleged that Dagohoy and her group claimed to be employees of the Office of the President.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dagohoy allegedly promised the complainant that the latter\u2019s son and nephew will be appointed in the BARMM parliament for P15 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The complainant said Dagohoy assured that the two positions would be reserved for them, further claiming that the “appointees” would be taking their oaths of office by January 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The complainant became suspicious and sought the help of the authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A meeting was set up and the suspects were arrested after they received the marked money.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charges of syndicated estafa and usurpation of authority or official functions are being readied for filing in court against the arrested suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SIX persons were arrested by operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for allegedly “selling” positions in the Bangsamoro parliament for millions of pesos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11032,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions\/11032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}