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Fuji vs. Atty. Dela Cruz

LIANG FUJI, COMPLAINANT, VS. ATTY. GEMMA ARMI M. DELA CRUZ, RESPONDENT.

A.C. No. 11043 | 2017-03-08

RESOLUTION
 
LEONEN, J.:
 
Failure to exercise utmost prudence in reviewing the immigration records of an alien, which resulted in the alien's wrongful detention, opens the special prosecutor in the Bureau of Immigration to administrative liability.

Before this Court is an administrative complaint[1] dated November 23, 2015 filed by Liang Fuji (Fuji) and his family, against Bureau of Immigration Special Prosecutor Gemma Armi M. Dela Cruz (Special Prosecutor Dela Cruz) for gross misconduct and gross ignorance of the law in relation to her issuance of a Charge Sheet against Fuji for overstaying.

Through a letter[2] dated...