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(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has suspended Deputy Speaker Prospero Pichay for 90 days. The fourth division gave the order for Pichay to “cease and desist” from performing his functions as representative of the 1st district of Surigao del Sur to supposedly allow for an impartial probe into his graft case that stems from a supposedly anomalous banking agreement he entered into in 2009. Pichay had argued he should not be meted out the preventive […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the graft case filed against former Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) director general Augusto Syjuco Jr. over the alleged anomalous purchase of farm inputs in 2004. In a 12-page resolution issued on March 16, the First Division said it was “constrained, much to its regret” to grant Syjuco’s motion to dismiss the case, which “dragged close to 12 years, and not just three years and nine […]
(Eagle News) A graft case and other criminal charges were filed against former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and former Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima before the Office of the Ombudsman on Wednesday (September 14) . The charges were filed due to failure to collect P100 billion in taxes from Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. (PSPC) from 2004 to 2009. Aquino and Purisima were charged with violation of Section 3(e) and 4 of Republic Act 3019 or […]
(Eagle News)- Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada, the famous whistleblower of the multi-million NBN-ZTE deal, has been sentenced by Sandiganbayan from 6 to 10 years of imprisonment after finding him guilty of graft in Philforest case. It was said that Lozada granted separate leasehold rights over public lands to his brother, Jose Orlando Lozada, and to a private company which is affiliated with him under the Lupang Hinirang program of the Philippine Forest Corp., a government-owned […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Senator JV Ejercito filed bail in the 5th division of the Sandiganbayan after said court ordered his arrest due to the Php 2.1 million graft case filed against him. The senator filed a Php 30, 000 bail bond for the graft case. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan fifth division issued an arrest warrant against Senator Jose “JV” Ejercito and five others for the graft case filed against them by the Office of the Ombudsman for the alleged illegal procurement of 2.1-million pesos worth of firearms. Also ordered arrested are the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) members of San Juan City, namely: City Administrator Ranulfo Dacalos, City Treasurer Rosalinda Marasigan, City Attorney Romualdo Delos Santos, […]
