Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Friday, May 29, posted ₱90,000 bail before the Sandiganbayan in connection with graft charges filed against him over alleged irregularities in flood control projects. The anti-graft court’s Second Division had earlier issued arrest warrants and hold departure orders...
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada will be arrested even if he seeks refuge inside the Senate once a warrant is served, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin A. Matibag said on Friday, May 29. Matibag issued the statement after the Sandiganbayan released an arrest warrant against Estrada, who is...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada said on Friday, May 29, he will be posting bail as it is a legal remedy that is available to him now. Estrada made the statement before going to the Sandiganbayan to post bail over his graft case which is in connection to his involvement in the alleged anomalous flood...
The Sandiganbayan has ordered the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada, as well as former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan. in connection with alleged irregularities involving flood control projects. The anti-graft court’s Second Division issued the warrants of...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Thursday, May 28 said he is prepared to exhaust all legal remedies in fighting another battle in court. This, after the Office of the Ombudsman formally filed plunder and graft cases against him and several others in connection to his alleged involvement in the...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) on Thursday, May 28, filed plunder and graft charges before the Sandiganbayan against Senator Jose “Jinggoy” P. Ejercito Estrada and former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan over alleged illegal budget insertions and more...
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) has sought the issuance of Precautionary Hold Departure Orders (PHDOs) against Senator Rodante Marcoleta, former lawmaker Michael “Mike” Defensor, and two other individuals before the Sandiganbayan. A PHDO is a court order that prohibits a respondent facing a...
A Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineer told the Sandiganbayan Third Division that a controversial flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan allegedly lacked the required construction materials test report despite being reported as 95.75 percent complete. During the Wednesday, May...
A Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineer on Tuesday, May 19, testified before the Third Division of the Sandiganbayan that the insertion of projects through “errata” or proposed amendments had allegedly happened several times in the past. Engineer Gerald Longoria, of the DPWH...
The Sandiganbayan’s Third Division has deferred by 30 days the resolution of the separate petitions for bail filed by former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and six co-accused facing malversation of public funds charges in connection with a P92.8-million flood control project in Pandi,...
The camp of former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. is still awaiting the resolution of the Sandiganbayan Third Division on his petition for bail in connection with his malversation case over the alleged “ghost” flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan. The court is expected to release its...
