Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:26:38 +0000
The Sandiganbayan has granted former Sen. Jinggoy Estrada’s motion for leave to file a demurrer to evidence
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:26:38 +0000
The Sandiganbayan has granted former Sen. Jinggoy Estrada’s motion for leave to file a demurrer to evidence
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:33:45 +0000
Former Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was an “active participant” in the multibillion-peso pork barrel scam who was confirmed to have received P70.7 million in alleged kickbacks by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), state prosecutors said in a court pleading made public on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:14:27 +0000
Former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile said on Saturday that the government would be lucky if its lawyers can any credible evidence of his alleged connection to the multibillion-peso pork barrel scam masterminded by businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, who had been convicted of plunder because of it.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:48:58 +0000
The Office of the Ombudsman has urged the Sandiganbayan to compel former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla to pay P124.5 million in civil damages to the national treasury, despite his acquittal in a plunder case over the use of his pork barrel funds. In a 17-page motion to the antigraft court’s First Division on Jan. 28, […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:21:44 +0000
In December 2016, the Ombudsman dismissed the criminal complaint against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who is now Speaker of the House, former Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, and two employees of the Department of Agrarian Reform for “insufficiency of evidence” in the alleged misuse of P900 million from the Malampaya Fund.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:46:53 +0000
Plunder convict Janet Lim Napoles has been transferred to the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong, according to the BJMP.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:38:21 +0000
The new bail bid of the chief of staff of former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile has been denied again by the Sandiganbayan.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:23:11 +0000
Saying a “nation loses its soul when the law becomes an instrument of injustice,” former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Monday described the acquittal of former Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. of plunder charges as the latest “legal abomination” plaguing Philippine society.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:31:31 +0000
Convicted pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles has asked the Sandiganbayan not to order her immediate transfer to the Correctional Institution for Women, arguing that she should be allowed to appeal her plunder case first.
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