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INTERIOR Secretary Rico Puno resigned on Tuesday as interior and local government undersecretary amid allegations of   his involvement in the purchase of  assault rifles for the police’s Special Action Force supposedly at an overprice and  attempt to access documents of the late Secretary Jesse Robredo.

Puno said in a statement he was  following the orders of President Benigno S.

Aquino III to secure Robredo’s condominium unit in Quezon City when he went there on Aug. 19, one day after Robredo was reported missing following a plane crash. The President has confirmed giving the order.

At the time of his death, Robredo was said to have been investigating a number of irregularities at the DILG, including the purchase 59,000 assault rifles that were supposedly overpriced.

Puno was in charge of the PNP.  (Related story: Puno visited Israeli firm blacklisted in India for corruption)

The President  has accepted Puno’s resignat