The Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed the ruling of the Department of Justice (DoJ) in filing charges against four officials of a gun company for the unlawful sale of ammunition which authorities said were used in the bloody Maguindanao massacre in November 2009. A probe conducted by the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group found that pieces of ammunition in Maguindanao came from Armscor, based on their lot numbers. Bahnarin Kamaong, then group director of the 15th Regional Mobile Group, Police Regional Office of Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, who ordered the purchase from Armscor despite the lack of permission from the PNP Firearms and Explosives Division. The transactions were made on cash basis, in the total amount of P20 million, for the full payment of one million rounds of ammunition or two batches of 500,000 rounds of ammunition. Also purchased from Armscor were 500,000 rounds of cartridge ball 5.56-mm full metal jacket combat ammunition.

Source: Manila Times December 18, 2017 17:15 UTC