Ruben Ecleo
Saturday April 14, 2012
RNB's Religion News Blog • Ruben Ecleo:
Ten years after his wife was murdered, Philippine cult leader Ruben Ecleo was found guilty of parricide and sentenced to reclusion perpetua, or at least 30 years’ imprisonment. The former congressman who earlier this year was also sentenced to 31 years in jail for graft is missing.
Monday February 13, 2012
RNB's Religion News Blog • Ruben Ecleo:
The Philippines Supreme Court has denied with finality the appeal of Dinagat Islands Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr. seeking to reverse the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court’s 2006 ruling convicting him and two other people of graft and sending them to 31 years in prison. Ecleo still faces an often-delayed trial on charges that he committed parricide by murdering his wife Alona in January, 2002.
Wednesday October 5, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Ruben Ecleo:
A court in the Philippines has reconfrmed the validity of an arrest warrant for cult leader and politician Ruben Ecleo Jr. In October 2006 Ecleo was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison on graft charges. The cult leader still faces a trial in the murder of his wife.
Friday February 11, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Ruben Ecleo:
The Sandiganbayan — a special court in the Philippines — has ordered the arrest of cult leader — and Congress member — Ruben Ecleo and two others after the Supreme Court dismissed their motion to overturn their conviction on graft charges, the Philippine Daily Inquirer writes.Thursday October 15, 2009
Ruben Ecleo:
Cult leader and parricide suspect Ruben Ecleo Jr. snubbed the resumption of his seven-year controversial parricide case in Cebu, citing health reasons for his failure to show up in court on Wednesday. Ecleo is charged for the brutal death of his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo and has put up a P1 million bail for his temporary liberty, citing his worsening health condition as a reason.
Saturday May 3, 2008
Ruben Ecleo: Ecleo, the supreme leader of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association and a former mayor of San Jose town in Dinagat Island in Surigao del Norte, is on trial in connection with the killing of his wife, at the time a medical student at one of the local universities in Cebu.
Saturday October 14, 2006
Ruben Ecleo: The Sandiganbayan sentenced cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. to 30 years in prison for entering into an anomalous contract in 1993 where the government incurred about P2.4 million in losses.
Saturday July 15, 2006
Ruben Ecleo: CEBU CITY -- A cardiologist has testified in court that controversial cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. is fit to go back to jail, citing his medical findings that the supreme master of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association has no significant heart disease.
Thursday May 4, 2006
Ruben Ecleo: CEBU CITY - A lady Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge handling the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. readmitted last Tuesday three of the pieces of evidence she had earlier junked as they were deemed "inadmissible as evidence."
Thursday September 22, 2005
Ruben Ecleo: Prosecutors handling Ecleo case suffer big blow as PNP fails to identify cadaver
Saturday June 18, 2005
Ruben Ecleo: People in Don Salvador, Benedicto (DSB) town in central Negros were alarmed with the recent discovery of a huge underground tunnel at Spurs 13, Barangay Bagong Silang.
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Saturday May 14, 2005
Ruben Ecleo: CEBU CITY — A forensic expert who autopsied an exhumed body believed to be that of Alona Bacolod, the murdered wife of parricide suspect and cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., said the cadaver bore similarities to that of Alona.
Monday April 11, 2005
Ruben Ecleo: BUTUAN CITY — Cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. will continue to be tried on parricide charges in Cebu City despite his claim that Cebuanos have been "hostile" toward him.
Thursday March 24, 2005
Ruben Ecleo: No single constitutional right will be violated in asking former mayor Ruben Ecleo Jr. and his three children to submit to a DNA test, the prosecution said.
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