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Sandiganbayan (File photo) MANILA - The Sandiganbayan denied businesswoman Janet Napoles' plea to dismiss the cases implicating her in charges against former agrarian reform secretary Nasser Pangandaman. In a resolution dated July 19, the anti-graft court's Fifth Division trying the case for malversation and falsification of Napoles said the businesswoman's motion filed in June was only a rehash of a similar motion to quash denied by the Supreme Court two months earlier. Napoles was charged with allegedly operating or controlling non-governmental organizations (NGOs) supposedly used in the diversion of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel of lawmakers. The NGOs involved were Agricultura Para sa Magbubukid Foundation, Inc., Countrywide Agri and Rural Economic Development Foundation Inc. Agri and Economic Program for Farmers Foundation Inc., Philippine Agri and Social Economic Development Foundation Inc., People's Organization for Progress and De
Supreme Court (SC) The Supreme Court (SC) has scored the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for its flip-flopping orders on land conversion which declared certain landholdings outside the coverage of the government’s agrarian reform program. It reiterated that once a conversion order in