Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:22:10 +0000
The Sandiganbayan First Division on Friday insisted that convicted pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles should be transferred to the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) to start spending her sentence.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:23:07 +0000
The Sandiganbayan has sentenced the former municipal mayor of Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay to imprisonment for six years to one month up to eight years after she gave four times bigger financial calamity aid to two of her relatives–husband and sister–back in 2007.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:34:29 +0000
Since its creation in 1973, the Sandiganbayan has handled a lot of controversial cases, largely because of its nature as a court hearing cases on anomalous government transactions.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:20:15 +0000
The antigraft court Sandiganbayan has lifted the travel restriction on businessman Jaime Dichaves, signaling the end of the plunder scandal involving former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:44:30 +0000
The Sandiganbayan on Tuesday approved the request of former Senator Jinggoy Estrada for him to travel abroad from Dec. 26 to 31.
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:04:14 +0000
Former Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay Jr. has finally been arraigned on multiple charges in connection with the P2.3-billion Makati City Hall Building II, nearly three years after his indictment. He refused to enter a plea so the Sandiganbayan Third Division entered a not guilty plea for him during his arraignment on Friday. […]
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:56:58 +0000
Senator Leila de Lima said the Aquino admin “never resorted to public vilification or character assassination of any of those under investigation.”
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