(Eagle News)–The Sandiganbayan has junked another case against former President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda.
Citing insufficiency of evidence, the second division dismissed the P1.052-billion ill-gotten wealth case also filed against Bienvenido Tantoco Sr., among others, less than two months after the anti-graft court junked the P102-billion ill-gotten wealth case against the Marcoses and 11 others.
In the P1.052-billion ill-gotten wealth case, prosecutors accused Tantoco of acting as a dummy for the wealth of the Marcoses.
But the anti-graft court said only four witnesses were presented by the prosecution, and only 11 documents were admitted, among others.
“Evidently, the plaintiff Republic failed to prove by preponderance of evidence that the defendants by themselves, or in conspiracy with defendants Marcoses, obtained ill-gotten wealth,” the division said.
The decision was penned by Associate Justices Michael Frederick Musngi, Oscar Herrera, and Lorifel Lacap Pahimna.
