Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:22:17 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan has upheld the plunder conviction of suspected pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles, citing lack of merit in her motion for reconsideration.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 05:04:39 +0000
The conviction of alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles has been affirmed by the Sandiganbayan First Division.
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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: 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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:08:23 +0000
Should former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. be made to pay back part of the P124.5 million in kickbacks from his pork barrel fund despite his acquittal in the plunder case against him?
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 08:22:53 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan First Division ordered the release of ex-Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. from detention.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:47:06 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — “I cried for you, Philippines.” This was how National Scientist and University of the Philippines School of Economics Professor Emeritus Raul Fabella decried the acquittal of former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. from plunder on Friday. READ: Bong Revilla acquitted of plunder Fabella even warned: “(W)here plunder is a virtue, the market has […]
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:47:06 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — “I cried for you, Philippines.” This was how National Scientist and University of the Philippines School of Economics Professor Emeritus Raul Fabella decried the acquittal of former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. from plunder on Friday. READ: Bong Revilla acquitted of plunder Fabella even warned: “(W)here plunder is a virtue, the market has […]
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:47:16 +0000
So, who owes the government P124.5 million — former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., Janet Lim-Napoles, or Richard Cambe?
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 03:26:56 +0000
Ex-Senator Bong Revilla has posted bail of P480,000 for 16 other cases of graft pending before Sandiganbayan to avail of provisional liberty.
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