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Former First Lady leaves Sandiganbayan; posts bail (Eagle News) — Former First Lady Imelda Marcos left the Sandiganbayan on Friday, Nov. 16, after she posted a P150,000 bail. This was after the fifth division allowed her to post the bail pending a resolution of her motion to avail of post-conviction remedies. Earlier, Marcos was allowed to post the same, but the anti-graft court forfeited this following her absence during the case promulgation on Friday, Nov. 9. […]
(Eagle News) — Former First Lady Imelda Marcos said she was not present during the promulgation of her case on Friday, Nov. 9, because her doctor had advised her against “stressful conditions” that would put her at risk. In her motion filed before the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division, Marcos said she was, after all, suffering from “multiple organ infirmities.” A medical certificate attached to the motion said the former First Lady was suffering from seven health […]
(Eagle News)– The Sandiganbayan has released a warrant of arrest against former First Lady Imelda Marcos. The Fifth Division issued the same following Marcos’ “unjustified” absence during the promulgation of her case related to the creation of organizations in Switzerland while she was in government on Friday, Nov. 9. During the promulgation, the anti-graft court found Marcos guilty of seven counts of graft. According to the division, “the bonds posted by the accused in the […]
(Eagle News) – The camp of former First Lady Imelda Marcos filed a motion for leave of court on Monday, Nov. 12, so the Ilocos Norte representative can still avail of legal remedies available to her after being convicted for graft by the Sandiganbayan on seven counts. The hearing for the motion was set on Friday, Nov. 16, at 8:30 a.m. While the 89-year old Marcos has already signified the intention of her lawyers to […]
(Eagle News) — Former First Lady Imelda Marcos said that her lawyers will appeal the Sandiganbayan ruling that convicted her for graft on seven counts for her alleged financial interests and management in several Swiss foundations allegedly used to funnel roughly $200 million decades ago. The 89-year old widow of the late President Ferdinand Marcos said that her camp just received a copy of the Sandiganbayan’s fifth division, and that her lawyer on record […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that it respects the decision of the Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division which convicted former First Lady Imelda Marcos of graft, saying that the verdict was a “good reminder” to all public servants that “public office is a public trust.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the Palace would not in any way interfere in the case. “The Executive Branch is not in the business of exerting undue interference […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has granted former First Gentleman Mike Arroyo’s motion to travel abroad anew. The seventh division allowed Arroyo to travel to Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan after the prosecution, it said, interposed no objection to the same. According to the division, the P90,000 travel bond posted by Arroyo in January 2013 sufficed for the trip. In April, the Sandiganbayan also allowed Arroyo to go abroad. He faces a graft case over the […]
(Eagle News) — Detained former senator Bong Revilla is running for a Senate seat in 2019. This is according to his party, the Lakas-CMD, which issued a statement on Friday, Oct. 5. “This decision was reached after a series of consultations with his family, close friends, constituents and political leaders,” former Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, Lakas-CMD president, said. According to Romualdez, Revilla’s “passion and dedication to serve the people will bring positive change and help […]
(Eagle News)—The Sandiganbayan has approved former Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s bid to travel to Singapore. In allowing Estrada to accompany his mother, former First Lady Loi Ejercito, to the Asian country for a medical checkup from Oct. 1 to 8, the Sandiganbayan, where Estrada faces cases in connection with the pork barrel scam, said it could not impair his right to travel, considering also that the court already allowed him to travel in previous times. The […]
(Eagle News)–Former Senator Jinggoy Estrada has asked the Sandiganbayan he be allowed to accompany his mother to Singapore, where she will undergo a medical exam. Estrada said former First Lady Loi Ejercito was scheduled to be at the Singapore Brain-Spine Nerves Center at Mount Elizabeth Hospital to meet a neurosurgeon named Dr. Pillay. Based on a certification from the family physician, Dr. Regina Bagsic, Ejercito was suffering from “severe compression deformity of the lumbar spine with […]
(Eagle News)–For Senator Cynthia Villar, there is no conflict between a bicameral conference-approved bill creating a trust fund for coconut farmers, and the Sandiganbayan ruling that ruled coco levy funds were owned by the government. According to Villar, chair of the Senate committee of agriculture and food, the “cash and the assets from Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund” amounting to about P105 billion under the measure “will be distributed to coconut farmers at the rate […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has junked the petitions filed by Richard Cambe and Janet Lim Napoles challenging a Sandiganbayan decision that denied them bail. The SC also denied the appeal of former Senator Bong Revilla against a Sandiganbayan freeze order on his assets in connection with the pork barrel scam. According to the High Court, the petitions were denied for “lack of merit.” The cases against Napoles, Revilla and Camber stem from the […]
