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No details yet on Zaldy Co from PH Embassy in Portugal — DFA
The Philippine government is coordinating with Portugal regarding former lawmaker Zaldy Co, who has an arrest warrant for alleged corruption and is suspected of holding a Portuguese passport.
DILG Secretary Jonvic Remulla stated that while canceling Co's Philippine passport restricts his travel, a Portuguese passport could complicate efforts to bring him to justice.
The Philippine Embassy in Portugal has yet to receive any information on Co, according to DFA spokesperson Angelica Escalona.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced that Co's passport has been canceled, and this information has been relayed to the Bureau of Immigration and the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime, which will report it to Interpol.
Co is facing charges of graft and malversation of public funds linked to allegedly anomalous flood control projects.
The National Bureau of Investigation requested an Interpol red notice against Zaldy Co through the PCTC on November 23.
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President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. announced the cancellation of the passport of former Ako Bicol Representative Zaldy Co, who is implicated in anomalies in multibillion-peso flood control projects.
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The Sandiganbayan has declared Ako Bicol party-list Representative Zaldy Co as a "fugitive from justice" and has requested the Department of Foreign Affairs to cancel his passport.
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has formally requested Interpol to issue a Red Notice for former Ako Bicol Party-List Representative Zaldy Co.
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