For violation of ther right to speedy disposition of cases, the Sandiganbayan has dismissed the criminal charges filed against former mayor Teddy Canlas Tumang of Mexico, Pampanga and William B. Colis, proprietor of Buyu Trading and Construction. Tumas and Canlas were charged with 29 counts of...
The Sandiganbayan has allowed former Quezon City mayor Herbert “Bistek” Constantine M. Bautista to present an additional witness in his graft case involving the alleged irregular procurement of the P32.1 million online occupational permitting and tracking system project in 2019....
The Sandiganbayan has acquitted two former Eastern Samar officials of their graft charges for violation of their right to speedy disposition of cases. Cleared of two counts of graft charges were former provincial accountant Vener Tabuena Dulfo and project...
Former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Nur P. Misuari and six other persons were convicted by the Sandiganbayan of graft in two cases involving P77 million worth of irregularly procured education materials in 2000 and 2001. However, Misuari and his six co-accused were...
The Sandiganbayan reset to June 21 the resolution of the demurrer to evidence filed by then Senate president and now Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile who sought the dismissal of his P172 million plunder case. The resolution of Enrile's demurrer, which had been allowed by the...
Finally after second try, the Sandiganbayan granted the pleas of former mayor Teddy C. Tumang of Mexico town in Pampanga and his six other co-accused to dismiss the graft charges filed against them for violation of their right to speedy disposition of cases. After their motion to dismiss was...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motions of former justice secretary Hernando "Nani" B. Perez and his brother-in-law Ramon Antonio Arceo Jr., and businessman Ernest de Leon Escaler to inhibit its justices handling the case for forfeiture of unlawfully acquired properties filed against them. Perez,...
Former Quezon City councilor Dante M. De Guzman has been convicted by the Sandiganbayan of four counts of graft for his failure to distribute P7.98 million worth of relief goods to his constituents in 2008 and 2009. De Guzman was sentenced to six to eight years imprisonment for each of the four...
The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat mayor Abubacar P. Maulana of the breach of conduct charge filed against him over his alleged unlawful declaration in his 2014 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN). In his 2014 SALN, Maulana declared that he bought his...
Lawyers' pleadings like motions that border on "incivility and intemperate ascriptions" are not allowed before a court of justice. In a resolution, the Sandiganbayan said most pleadings rely on "grace and fluidity of language" to "enthrall and enlighten" a court. With its declarations, the...
The Sandiganbayan has approved the payment of P2.5 million to settle the P9.06 million civil case for forfeiture of alleged unexplained wealth filed against the former director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Benguet and members of his family. Former PNP Chief Supt. Eugene Garbriel...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motions filed by three former Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) officials to file a demurrer to evidence to challenge the alleged weakness of the prosecution's evidence on their graft and malversation of public funds cases. With the denial,...
