Duterte names Davao City fiscal as new Prosecutor General

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a Davao City prosecutor to head the National Prosecution Service, an agency under the Department of Justice.

Duterte named Assistant City Prosecutor Victor Sepulvida as the new Prosecutor General, replacing Claro Arellano, who was appointed Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) administrator, according to Justice Undersecretary Erickson Balmes on Thursday.

Sepulvida was acting chief prosecutor of Davao City from 2014 to early 2015, where Duterte served as mayor for 23 years before he was elected president in May.

It was Sepulvida who indicted Superintendent Leonardo Felonia, former chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Southern Mindanao Regional Intelligence Unit (RIU), and three others for the murder of Cebu businessman Richard King in 2014. — VVP, GMA News