PNP chief: Tracker teams, warrant servers activated for Marcoleta

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP)’s tracker teams and warrant servers have been activated for Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, who is facing a non-bailable plunder case, according to PNP chief Police Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr.

The Sandiganbayan’s Third Division issued an arrest warrant against Marcoleta in the non-bailable case on Monday morning.

In a press briefing on Monday, shortly before the warrant issuance was announced, Nartatez said the tracker teams and warrant servers “are activated 24 hours.”

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“We’ll just issue the warrant and inform them: ‘Oh, this is to be arrested,’ then they will go,” Nartatez said.

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On Friday, the Office of the Ombudsman filed a non-bailable plunder case against Marcoleta before the Sandiganbayan in connection with his alleged undeclared P75 million campaign donation.

The case against Marcoleta and his three co-accused—former Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor and businessmen Aristotle Viray and Joseph Espiritu—was raffled to the Sandiganbayan’s Third Division. /mcm

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