Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Bayani Jacinto urged the Office of the Ombudsman’s (OMB) newly trained field investigators to soldier on as they probe what he described as “arguably, the biggest corruption scandal in our history.” He made the appeal during the graduation ceremony for the...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Wednesday, Aug. 12, denied personally handling or requesting lists of senators’ infrastructure project requests when he served as Senate president, following testimony linking him to a “leadership fund” for priority projects. Former...
Former Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan testified Wednesday, Aug. 12, that then Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Undersecretary Roberto Bernardo submitted to him the project lists of former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. under the department’s Senate leadership fund. Bonoan...
Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg chided Tarlac 3rd District Rep. Noel Rivera for wearing jeans to his scheduled arraignment before the anti-graft court’s Second Division on Tuesday, Aug. 11. “For a congressman to appear like that in court,” Econg told Rivera. “You do...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday, Aug. 11, that it would strictly follow judicial mandates to transport former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan before the Sandiganbayan for his scheduled testimony in the trial of former senator Ramon “Bong”...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has sought to overturn the Sandiganbayan’s grant of bail to former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., urging the anti-graft court to partially reconsider its July 31 resolution and deny his petition for provisional liberty. On July 31, the Sandiganbayan Third...
Amid a complaint filed against him before the Office of the Ombudsman, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Jose “Brix” Pujalte Jr. said on Thursday, Aug. 6, that the department 's review of the proposed P3-billion procurement of tuberculosis commodities is intended to protect patients...
Former senator Bong Revilla 's temporary liberty after posting bail does not mean the malversation charges against him are over, says Malacañang. "Hindi pa po dito nagtatapos, dahil petition for bail pa lang po ito (The case does not end here because this only concerns the bail petition),"...
The Sandiganbayan Second Division on Monday, Aug. 3, denied the prosecution’s motion to exclude former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan as an accused in Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada’s pending graft case. In a 12-page resolution penned by Presiding...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta on Monday, Aug. 3, declined to enter a plea during the arraignment of one of the three criminal cases filed against him for alleged violation of Presidential Decree (PD) No. 46, or the anti-gift law, in connection with the alleged P75 million in undeclared donations he...
Very alarming. This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas described the possibility that former and incumbent high-ranking government officials facing corruption charges could be allowed to post bail and obtain provisional liberty. The statement came two days after the...
Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla said on Saturday, Aug. 1, that the Sandiganbayan’s decision granting bail to former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. in his pending malversation case involving the alleged anomalous P92.8-million flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan was “part...
