Published February 6, 2021, 3:16 PM
Businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles is set to file charges against the three Sandiganbayan associate justices who convicted her and four other persons of three counts each of graft and malversation involving the misuse of the P28.8 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Cagayan de Oro Rep. Constantino G. Jaraula.
Sandiganbayan (MANILA BULLETIN)
Her lawyer, Rony Garay, said the 103-page decision handed down by Associate Justices Edgardo M. Caldona, Efren N. Dela Cruz and Geraldine Faith A. Econg is “haphazard” because it used “inadmissible evidence under the Cybercrime Law.”
Garay said charges of gross ignorance of the law, manifest partiality, and extreme bias will be filed against the three anti-graft court magistrates.
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Jaraula, Napoles, Technology Resource Center (TRC) Group Manager Ma. Rosalinda Masongsong Lacsamana, Legislative Liaison Officer and Sales and Promotion Officer V Belina A. Concepcion, and private individual Mylene T. Encarnacion were found guilty of violating three counts of Section 3(e) of Republic Act No. 3019, the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, and another three counts of Article 217 of the Revised Penal Code or malversation of public funds.
They were all sentenced to a prison term ranging from six to 10 years in each of their graft cases, and imprisonment for each for each count of malversation ranging from 12 years and one day to 18 years, eight months, and one day.