Criminal and administrative complaints have been filed against Mayor Ramon C. Oñate of Palompon town in Leyte and three other persons before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) for their alleged "environmental transgressions" in 2017 that reportedly favored the business interest of the mayor. Also...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The fight against graft and corruption should start with schoolchildren as far as AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes is concerned. In this regard, Reyes House Bill (HB) No.9054, or the proposed “Anti-Graft and Corruption Education Act”....
Two former officials of the now defunct National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) have been convicted by the Sandiganbayan in three criminal cases involving the ghost procurement of P4.8 million worth of seedlings for the 1st district of Lanao del Norte in 2009. Convicted of graft,...
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 has decided to resolve the plea of former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile to dismiss his plunder case simultaneously with its main decision involving other accused in the alleged misuse of the former senator's Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) from 2004 to 2010....
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 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...
Criminal and administrative complaints were filed on Wednesday, Oct. 11, before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) against Panabo City, Davao del Norte Mayor Jose E. Relampagos in the appointment of the city's budget officer as officer-in-charge when he travelled abroad from Sept. 21, to 23, 2023....
ILOILO CITY – The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed three graft charges against Romeo Caesar “Juncae” L. Manikan Jr., former chief of the Iloilo City Civil Registry Office. In three separate Ombudsman decisions, Manikan was cleared of alleged violation of Section 3(e) of Republic Act No....
ILOILO CITY – Antique Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao said politics is behind the 90-day preventive suspension imposed by the Sandiganbayan against her for allegedly violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. “My political detractors have concentrated their efforts and even resorted to...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed its ruling that denied the motion to dismiss through a demurrer to evidence filed by P/Supt. Rainier A. Espina, one of the co-accused of former Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Avelino I. Razon Jr., in the alleged anomalous P409.7 million...
