Faeldon appointed chief of BuCor
MANILA — Defense official and former Bureau of Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon has been transferred to a new government post.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has picked Faeldon to take over the Bureau of Corrections post.
The post was vacated by Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, who filed his certificate of candidacy for senator earlier today at the Commission on Elections.
Dela Rosa held the BuCor chief post for six months. During his stint as head of the said agency, the former police chief cited curbing the illegal drug trade inside the national penitentiary as one of the problems he is facing.
Faeldon was the former chief of Customs but he has since stepped down from the post over the P6.4 billion shabu shipment case.
Faeldon tendered his resignation thrice before Duterte accepted it.
DUTERTE: GOV’T WOULD NEED FAELDON
Duterte re-appointed Faeldon as deputy administrator of the Office of the Civil Defense under the Department of National Defense in December.
This was four months since he quit as Customs chief. The president, upon accepting his resignation, said: “From the tone of his resignation, he’s very disappointed but I really believe he is an honest man.”
Duterte also hinted that the “government would need Faeldon.”
DRUG RAPS
PDEA filed a violation of the law against the importation of illegal drugs complaint against Faeldon and several other Customs officials over the multi-billion peso shabu case. However, the National Prosecution Service dismissed the raps against Faeldon.
State prosecutors said the complainants failed “to state with clarity the acts or omission supposedly committed by the above-named BOC respondents that would constitute violation of the offense charged.”
While Faeldon may have gotten off criminal prosecution, he is still facing investigation at the Office of the Ombudsman.—