Senator Alan Peter Cayetano called on the Senate Impeachment Court on Monday, July 6 to allow Senators Rodante Marcoleta and Jinggoy Estrada—who are both detained for plunder cases—to attend Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial. Cayetano said both senators should be allowed to...
Sen. Rodante Marcoleta may be accommodated at the Philippine National Police-General Hospital (PNPGH) for around two days until all the necessary medical check-up are completed. Marcoleta is presently under police custody after he was arrested for a case of plunder filed before the Sandiganbayan in...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta will be committed to the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas, where former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and Senator Jinggoy Estrada are currently detained, after the Sandiganbayan Third Division ordered his arrest over a plunder case lodged against him. According to...
Pwersa ng Pilipinong Pandagat (PPP) Party-list Rep. Harold Duterte is incredulous that an arrest warrant would be issued against Senator Rodante Marcoleta on the same day as the start of Vice President Sara Duterte’s Senate impeachment trial. "This is too much of a coincidence," Rep. Duterte said...
It was supposed to be another typical Monday morning at the Sandiganbayan but when Sen. Rodante Marcoleta showed up to personally file a motion to quash the case of plunder against him, that’s when the situation started to heat up. And police appeared to have taken advantage of the situation as...
Former congressman Mike Defensor and another co-accused of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta in a plunder case were already arrested in a coffee shop in Quezon City a few hours after the arrest warrant was issued by the Sandiganbayan, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic...
Malacañang has expressed confidence that the leadership of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) would respect the court 's decision ordering the arrest of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, saying compliance with the rule of law should prevail regardless of political or religious affiliations. Presidential...
The Sandiganbayan Third Division on Monday, July 6, issued warrants of arrest and hold departure orders (HDOs) against Senator Rodante Marcoleta and three others after finding probable cause in the plunder case filed against them by the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) During a press briefing, Third...
Former congressman Mike Defensor said Monday, July 6, that his arrest on a non-bailable plunder charge was intended to stop him from speaking out against alleged corruption in the government, just as the Sandiganbayan ordered his detention alongside Senator Rodante Marcoleta and two businessmen. In...
The arrest warrant issued against Sen. Rodante Marcoleta has already been served, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla said. The arrest warrant was served at the Sandiganbayan where Marcoleta went to with his lawyers on Monday morning to file a motion to...
Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian said that as of Saturday, July 4, embattled Senator Rodante Marcoleta may still join the Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Gatchalian, in a radio interview, acknowledged Marcoleta 's current legal woes, particularly his plunder charge...
The prospective Sandiganbayan trial on Senator Rodante Marcoleta 's plunder charge could end up being an easy case for prosecutors, according to Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson. Lacson thinks that Marcoleta has pretty much doomed himself with his own words, leaving a scenario wherein the...
