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PACC's Dante Jimenez passes away at 68
Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Chairperson Dante Jimenez has passed away. He was 68.
Jimenez died Friday night, Jan. 29, according to a report on Super Radyo dzBB.
JUST IN: Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Chairman Dante Jimenez, pumanaw na. pic.twitter.com/DwPe1HC9nU
— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) January 30, 2021
In a separate report on dzBB, Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) president Arsenio "Boy" Evangelista confirmed Jimenez's death in a hospital.
LIVE sa DZBB: Aresenio "Boy" Evangelista, Presidente ng Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC).
— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) January 30, 2021
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"Dinala siya siya sa Chinese General Hospital Biyernes ng gabi," Evangelista siad.
Jimenez was designated as co-chairperson of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), a post that was briefly held by Vice President Leni Robredo in 2019.
He was the founding chairman of VACC before his appointment to PACC in January 2018.
Malacañang on Saturday conveyed its condolences to the family of Jimenez.
"The Palace expresses its condolences to the family, loved ones and colleagues of Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Chairperson Dante Jimenez who died of aortic aneurysm last night, January 29, 2021," presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement.
"PACC Chair Jimenez spent most of his productive life advocating a just and peaceful society for Filipinos by fighting criminality and corruption. He believed and shared President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s centerpiece program, which is the campaign against illegal drugs, crime and corruption, and had served the Duterte Administration as Chair of PACC and Co-Chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD). He would be dearly missed," he added.
"May the perpetual light shine upon him, and may the soul of Mr. Jimenez rest in eternal peace," Roque said. —LBG/KG, GMA News
