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BY<\/strong> KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE mayor of San Simon, Pampanga and his long-time aide on Tuesday were arrested by joint operatives led by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for alleged extortion during an entrapment operation at a restaurant in Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Arrested were San Simon Mayor Jun “JP” Punsalan and his alleged accomplice and long-time aide <\/strong>Dr. Ed Ryan Dimla<\/strong> alias “Doc Yang.”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Members of the National Bureau of Investigation-National Capital Region (NBI-NCR) in coordination with NBI-PAMDO, PSD-CDC and the Mabalacat City police, launched the sting at Caf\u00e9 Mesa, Clark Freeport Zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Punsalan and Dimla were arrested while accepting the alleged bribe money from a steel company in exchange for a favorable resolution from the local government. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Based on a complaint filed by the RealSteel Corporation, the mayor allegedly demanded an P80-million bribe — P30 million as an advance payment and the remaining P50 million to be paid in installment basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The accused were immediately brought to NBI-PAMDO before they were turned over to the NBI-NCR Office in Manila.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The mayor and his cohort were charged with violation of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, and other related penal laws and were subjected to inquest proceedings Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile. also arrested in the operation were the mayor’s security aide for carrying several pieces of firearms and ammunition.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG THE mayor of San Simon, Pampanga and his long-time aide on Tuesday were arrested by joint operatives led by the National Bureau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15665,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions\/15665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}