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...
The Sandiganbayan has ordered the execution of its July 18, 2023 resolution as part of its Feb. 21, 2023 decision which declared that 60 percent of the shareholdings of Lianga Bay Logging Co., Inc. (LBLCI) belonged to its employees. Also ordered executed was the court's ruling that held businessman...
The Sandiganbayan has ordered former Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) undersecretary Narciso B. Nieto to present his evidence starting on Nov. 28 on graft and malversation of public funds cases filed against him in the alleged misuse of the P20 million priority development assistance...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motions of former Bayambang, Pangasinan mayor Ricardo M. Camacho and businessman Willy L. Chua to suspend the proceedings in the graft charges filed against them. Camacho and Chua were charged with graft for allegedly causing undue injury to the municipality in a...
