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The Sandiganbayan’s Seventh Division on Tuesday afternoon, May 26, issued a precautionary hold departure order (PHDO) against Senator Rodante Marcoleta, former lawmaker Michael “Mike” Defensor, Aristotle Baluyut Viray, and Joseph Varias Espiritu. A PHDO is a court order that prohibits a...

The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) on Tuesday, May 26, argued before the Sandiganbayan Seventh Division that Senator Rodante Marcoleta, former lawmaker Michael “Mike” Defensor, and businessmen Joseph Varias Espiritu and Aristotle Baluyut Viray should be barred from leaving the country pending...

The Sandiganbayan Sixth Division on Monday, April 27, issued a precautionary hold departure order (PHDO) against Sen. Francis Joseph “Chiz” Escudero and businessman Maynard Siy Ngu. The anti-graft court also directed the commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to prevent their departure...

The Sandiganbayan has started conducting a hearing for the petition by the Office of the Ombudsman to issue a precautionary hold departure order (PHDO) against Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero. The hearing was held on Monday morning by the anti-graft court’s Sixth Division where the PHDO petition...