The Sandiganbayan has ordered a 90-day preventive suspension of Aldrin C. Cuña, executive vice president of the National Defense College of the Philippines, over his pending graft case that was filed when he was the city administrator of Quezon City. In a six-page resolution issued on...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the regional trial court's (RTC) decision that convicted of graft a former official of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Cebu and a private individual over the auction and payment of 26,908 bags of illegally shipped sugar in 1999. Affirmed was the conviction of Benjamin...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion to dismiss the graft charges filed against former mayor Teddy C. Tumang of Mexico town in Pampanga and six other accused despite their insistence that their right to speedy disposition of cases had been violated. Tumang, former Municipal Planning and...
A former town mayor of Consolacion, Cebu and seven other persons were acquitted of graft charges by the Sandiganbayan on Friday, Feb. 16, over the purchase of alleged overpriced fertilizers for P249,000 in 2005. In a 35-page decision penned by Associate Justice Rafael R. Lagos, the Sandiganbayan's...
The Sandiganbayan has steadily decongested its dockets of pending cases filed against public officials and employees and private individuals charged with them with only 1,490 cases pending as of Dec. 31, 2023 compared to 2,339 cases in 2022. Known as the anti-graft court, the Sandiganbayan is not...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said the bribery conviction rendered against him by the Sandiganbayan will not affect his work as a senator. Estrada, in an interview over Radio DWIZ, said that as far as he is concerned, the ruling of the anti-graft court is not yet final and...
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Friday, January 19 called on the public to respect the decision of the courts following the Sandiganbayan’s decision to acquit his brother Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada from a plunder case related to the pork barrel fund scam. The...
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri said on Friday, Jan. 19 that the Senate takes due notice and respects the decision of the Sandiganbayan on the cases filed against Sen. Jinggoy Estrada. In a statement, he added that the Senate also recognizes the fact that there are still legal remedies...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Friday, January 19 vowed to exhaust all legal options available to him to after the Sandiganbayan acquitted him of plunder but found him guilty of direct and indirect bribery in the so-called pork barrel fund scam. Estrada said he is surprised at the...
The Sandiganbayan has ruled that despite his acquittal on graft, malversation and bribery charges, former Ilocos Sur congressman Salacnib F. Baterina is still required to return, together with those convicted, the P35 million illegally disbursed out of his Priority Development Assistance Fund...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has required the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to account for the more than P2.6 billion fund transfers (FTs) to the Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) for the procurements of goods and services which have "aged" for...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion of the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) to withdraw the graft charge it filed against former Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) executive director Samuel Aloysius M. Jardin. Jardin was charged with violations...
