The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the criminal charges filed against businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, her employee, and four former officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in the alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2004 due to "vexatious, capricious, and...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed its decision that convicted former Sarangani governor Miguel D. Escobar and a former employee of graft and malversation of public funds amounting to P450,000 in 2002. Escobar and former management analyst Alexis Jude K. Dela Cruz filed motions for...
Two former officials of the now defunct National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) have been convicted by the Sandiganbayan in three criminal cases involving the ghost procurement of P4.8 million worth of seedlings for the 1st district of Lanao del Norte in 2009. Convicted of graft,...
Again, the Sandiganbayan has convicted the now detained businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles of graft and malversation of public funds and sentenced to life imprisonment. This time, she was found guilty in the misuse of the P35 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Ilocos Sur 1st...
A clerk at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) pleaded guilty to lesser offenses, instead of graft and estafa through falsification of public documents, and was sentenced to one year imprisonment in 20 cases and three months and 11 days jail term in 20 other cases involving ghost...
Former health secretary and now Iloilo 1st District Rep. Janette Loreto-Garin and four others have been charged with graft and technical malversation before the Sandiganbayan for their reported involvement in the alleged irregular procurement of Dengvaxia vaccines in 2015. Aside from Garin, also...
The Sandiganbayan has denied anew the motion of Jessica Lucila "Gigi" Reyes, former chief of staff of then Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, to file a demurrer to evidence and seek the dismissal of her plunder charges on alleged weakness of the prosecution's evidence to sustain a conviction. With...
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the appeal filed by former Cebu customs official Benjamin C. Bongon and private individual Roger T. Ang seeking to overturn their graft conviction on the irregular sugar auction conducted in 2000. In a decision dated Dec. 1, 2017, the Cebu City regional trial court...
ILOILO CITY – The Sandiganbayan junked the graft case filed against Antique Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao and lifted her 90-day preventive suspension. CADIAO (Tara Yap) In a copy of the decision obtained by Manila Bulletin, the Sandiganbayan Seventh Division ruled that there is lack of...
The Sandiganbayan has decided to resolve the plea of former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile to dismiss his plunder case simultaneously with its main decision involving other accused in the alleged misuse of the former senator's Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) from 2004 to 2010....
The Sandiganbayan acquitted former South Cotabato congressman Arthur Pingoy Jr. but convicted detained businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles in all charges of graft and malversation of public funds filed in the misuse of the then legislator's P20.91 million Priority Development Assistance fund...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed its decision that convicted of malversation of public funds former cashier Nila E. Cariño of the Human Settlements Development Corporation-Maharlika Livelihood Complex (HSDC-MLC) in Baguio City. Cariño had been found guilty of malversation by the Baguio City...
