A clerk at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) pleaded guilty to lesser offenses, instead of graft and estafa through falsification of public documents, and was sentenced to one year imprisonment in 20 cases and three months and 11 days jail term in 20 other cases involving ghost...
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the appeal filed by former Cebu customs official Benjamin C. Bongon and private individual Roger T. Ang seeking to overturn their graft conviction on the irregular sugar auction conducted in 2000. In a decision dated Dec. 1, 2017, the Cebu City regional trial court...
ILOILO CITY – The Sandiganbayan junked the graft case filed against Antique Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao and lifted her 90-day preventive suspension. CADIAO (Tara Yap) In a copy of the decision obtained by Manila Bulletin, the Sandiganbayan Seventh Division ruled that there is lack of...
The Sandiganbayan acquitted former South Cotabato congressman Arthur Pingoy Jr. but convicted detained businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles in all charges of graft and malversation of public funds filed in the misuse of the then legislator's P20.91 million Priority Development Assistance fund...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed its decision that convicted of malversation of public funds former cashier Nila E. Cariño of the Human Settlements Development Corporation-Maharlika Livelihood Complex (HSDC-MLC) in Baguio City. Cariño had been found guilty of malversation by the Baguio City...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has dismissed for lack of jurisdiction the petition filed by an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) against the Bureau of Customs (BOC) which forfeited his luxury vehicle in 2018. The case started when OFW Allan U. Garcia sought to import his white 2012 Lamborghini...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former acting general manager Jamaloden H. Faisal of the Tugaya Water District in Lanao del Sur for graft and malversation of public funds in the P10 million water supply improvement project in 2011. Affirmed were Faisal's six to 10 years prison term...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion filed by Philippine National Police (PNP) non-uniformed personnel (NUP) Eulito T. Fuentes who pleaded a 50 percent reduction in the P690,000 bail in his four remaining graft charges. In a 272-page resolution issued last June 21, the...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion filed by Iloilo City Councilor Plaridel C. Nava II to dismiss the graft charge filed against him as it ruled that the case should proceed to trial. Nava was charged together with former mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog with...
Senator Francis “Tol” Tolentino believes that barangay officials should always carry with them a checklist or some sort of crib notes so they may never forget their mandates. This was the senator's message to Local Government Academy (LGA) Assistant Director Esmeralda Purnell on Saturday, Oct....
The Sandiganbayan has convicted four former officials of the now-defunct Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC) of their graft, malversation, and malversation through falsification charges in the misuse of the P5.4 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Davao del...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former Davao del Norte congressman Arrel R. Olaño for the misuse of his P7.72 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2007. Olaño had been convicted of three graft and three malversation charges together with...
