THE Philippine military said it had sacked a prominent army general after police named him as the “mastermind” behind the murder of a woman who was seeking to blackmail him.
Brigadier-General Jesus Durante, the former chief of then-Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte’s presidential security force, ordered the killing of a woman outside her apartment last month, police said on Wednesday.
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