The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed graft charges against officials and personnel of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) over the shipment of 103 container vans of garbage from Canada in 2013. Implicated in the graft case were: former EMB director Juan Miguel Cuna; EMB personnel Irvin Cadavona, Geri Geronimo Sanez and Renato Cruz; and BOC personnel Benjamin Perez Jr., Eufracio Ednaco, Matilda Bacongan and Jose Saromo. —Nikka G. Valenzuela
NBI files charges over Canada trash case
BACK TO SENDER The Philippine government expects that the remaining containers of trash from Canada will be returned to that country this month. —PHOTO COURTESY OF MCWM