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Federico Calilung vs Judge Suriaga

FEDERICO S. CALILUNG, complainant, vs. JUDGE WILFREDO S. SURIAGA, MTC, Angeles City, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-99-1191 | 2000-08-31

PER CURIAM:

These consolidated administrative cases charge both respondent judges with irregular activities amounting to serious misconduct in office.

It appears from the record that on April 19, 1999, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted an entrapment operation involving Judge Wilfredo S. Suriaga., Presiding Judge of the Metropolitan Trial Court of Angeles City. The operation stemmed from an Affidavit Complaint dated April 16, 1999[1] filed by Federico Calilung y Surla with the NBI. The complaint alleged that:

1. Calilung was the complainant in a case against one Emiliano D. Joven in an ejectment case docketed...