Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Tuesday welcomed the appointment of Rudolf Philip Jurado, one of the lawyers of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, as the new head of Office of the Government Corporate Counsel.
The OGCC, a line agency under the supervision of the DoJ, serves as the legal counsel of all government-owned and -controlled corporations, their subsidiaries, other corporate offsprings.
”We welcome to the DoJ Family the newly appointed head of the OGCC, Atty. Rodulf Philip B. Jurado. We hope that he will lead the OGCC towards attaining our reform-oriented targets as one Department under the Duterte Administration. We are looking forward to working with him,” Aguirre said in a statement.
President Rodrigo Duterte signed the appointment papers of Jurado last April 18 and the DoJ released Jurado’s appointment letter to the media on Monday.
Jurado replaces previous administration appointee Ireneo Galicia.
Jurado is one of the lawyers for VACC on the Petition for Certiorari filed before the Court of Appeals questioning the legality and constitutionality of the conversion of the Army Navy Club into a boutique hotel and casino gaming facilities. Joel E. Zurbano
He also serves as legal counsel for a number of celebrities including actors Robin and Rommel Padilla, former Parañaque City mayor Joey Marquez, Anne Curtis, Ana Capri, and Dawn Zulueta and her husband former Davao del Norte Representative Anton Lagdameo.
In the 2016 Presidential Elections, the VACC endorsed then Davao City mayor Duterte to run for president after its chairman Martin Diño withdrew his certificate of candidacy for president and named the 70-year-old mayor as his replacement.
Later, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan announced that Duterte will substitute as the party’s standard bearer replacing Dino.