The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the three perjury charges filed against Mayor Rommel C. Maslog of Talisayan town in Misamis Oriental for lack of jurisdiction and violation of his right to speedy disposition of cases. The first perjury charge was allegedly committed by Maslog when he was vice mayor...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former acting general manager Jamaloden H. Faisal of the Tugaya Water District in Lanao del Sur for graft and malversation of public funds in the P10 million water supply improvement project in 2011. Affirmed were Faisal's six to 10 years prison term...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion filed by Philippine National Police (PNP) non-uniformed personnel (NUP) Eulito T. Fuentes who pleaded a 50 percent reduction in the P690,000 bail in his four remaining graft charges. In a 272-page resolution issued last June 21, the...
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...
While the Sandiganbayan allowed former senator Juan Ponce Enrile to seek the dismissal of his plunder case through a demurrer to evidence, it denied the same plea filed by his former chief of staff Atty. Jessica Lucila "Gigi" Reyes. A demurrer to evidence is a pleading filed by an accused in a...
The Sandiganbayan has convicted four former officials of the now-defunct Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC) of their graft, malversation, and malversation through falsification charges in the misuse of the P5.4 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Davao del...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the graft conviction of incumbent and former officials of Patnongon town in Antique and a private individual in the irregular transfer of ownership of the municipality's P9.9 million rice mill in 2007 and 2008. Denied were the motions for reconsideration filed by...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former Davao del Norte congressman Arrel R. Olaño for the misuse of his P7.72 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2007. Olaño had been convicted of three graft and three malversation charges together with...
The Sandiganbayan has convicted former mayor Constantino Bernardo Navarro IV of Del Carmen town in Surigao del Norte for delay in the liquidation of the P3 million intelligence funds he took from the municipality in two tranches in 2010. Since the prosecution allowed Navarro to plead guilty to a...
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 ordered the 90-day preventive suspension of incumbent Antique Gov. Rhodora J. Cadiao on a graft charge filed against her involving the alleged illegal reassignment of a provincial employee and non-payment of the employee's salaries and allowances from 2016 to 2018....
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...
