Tag: Electoral sabotage

Topacio files perjury complaint vs Pimentel

(Eagle News)—-Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio has filed a perjury complaint against Senator Koko Pimentel. The complaint filed before the Manila Prosecutors Office stemmed from the electoral sabotage case the senator filed against now Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and others in 2011. Topacio was Arroyo’s lawyer at that time. The filing took place even if the Pasay Regional Trial Court cleared Arroyo in 2008, granting her demurrer to evidence. Pimentel is seeking reelection in the May elections […]

Pasay court junks electoral sabotage case vs Arroyo

(Eagle News)—-The Pasay City Regional Trial Court has junked the electoral sabotage case filed against former President and now-Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In granting Arroyo’s demurrer to evidence, which argues there is no sufficient evidence to sustain a guilty verdict in the case,  Branch 112 Judge Jesus Mupas said  the testimony of provincial administrator Norie Unas had remained “uncorroborated” as there was no other witness nor documentary evidence that could connect Arroyo to the  crime she […]