Founder of Gawad Kalinga arrested over qualified trafficking
CAMP ALEJO SANTOS, May 30 -- The tracker team of the Bulacan Police's intelligence unit on Friday arrested the founder of Gawad Kalinga, who is facing two counts of qualified trafficking, in Angat, Bulacan.
Gawad Kalinga is a non-governmental organization that describes itself as a "poverty alleviation and nation-building movement."
Based on a police report released on Saturday morning, the wanted person, Tony Meloto, 76, was arrested in an intelligence-driven operation at a farm in Barangay Encanto, Angat, Bulacan, by virtue of warrants of arrest issued by the Regional Trial Court in Malolos City, Bulacan, for two counts of qualified trafficking under Republic Act 9208, or the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.
The court recomme...
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