The protest by some 30 people on Sunday 10 October at the embassy in Athens was actually part of a smear campaign by an illegal, fake school for Filipino children called Philippine Cultural Educational Academy (PCEA) and by a Marcos “refugee”, Jose Valencia, to remove Rigoberto Tiglao from his post, so that it can continue fooling OFWs in Athens, and trying to bully the Embassy through black propaganda.

The supertanker Maran Centaurus and its 28-man crew, 16 of whom are Filipinos, were released by Somali pirates at 8:30 a.m. (Greece time) today 18 January and is now headed for Durban, South Africa, escorted by a Greek naval ship.
The Filipino crew released are as follows: Vincent M. Ombid; Marvin P. Montecillo; Movo T. Aragon; Allan Bayocboc; Salvador Quiocho; Paul Anthony Piraza; Ulysis T. Velasquez; Eric A. Castro; Fermin A. Panaligan, Jr.; Vincent C. Amante ; Lester C. Estrada ; Jessie B. Basalo; Ezemar Vlla Soreso ; Franscisco de Guzman ; Ronald F. Lecitivo; and Henry Suano.

The ordeal of 12 Filipino officers and seamen, as well as of the Ukranian and Montenegrin crew, manning the problematic Cayman Islands-registered Aetea Sierra will soon end with lawyers of the International Transport Federation (ITF) and the Philippine Embassy succeeding in convincing a Piraeus court to immediately settle the unpaid salaries of the ship’s crew and to undertake arrangements for the crew to leave the ship and return home.
Philippine Ambassador to Athens Rigoberto Tiglao had formally and strongly urged Greek authorities to allow the Filipino crewmen to immediately return home, with only a skeletal crew to remain on the ship.