Sandiganbayan
The Sandiganbayan has convicted former Bukidnon Rep. Candido Pancrudo Jr. and Mark Espinosa of Uswag Pilipinas Foundation, Inc. (UPFI) of graft and malversation of public funds for the illegal use of the former legislator’s P7.9 million in priority development assistance fund (PD
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Supreme Court (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by a former Nueva Ecija lawmaker who challenged the Office of the Ombudsman's findings to indict him in connection with Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) irregularities in 2007. In a resolution uploaded online on Friday, the SC First Division affirmed the resolutions of the Ombudsman in 2016 and 2017 finding probable cause to charge former Nueva Ecija 4th District Rep. Rodolfo Antonino with malversation and violation of Republic Act (RA) 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act regarding the utilization of his allotment of PDAF, also known as pork barrel. "Petitioner (Antonino) failed to show that the Ombudsman acted in a capricious and whimsical manner," the SC said, adding that it "defers to the discretion of the Ombudsman considering that its finding of probable cause to indict petitioner (Antonino) for two counts of malversation under Article 217 of the Revised Pena
MANILA-The Sandiganbayan anti-graft court has convicted the former president of the National Agribusiness Corporation (Nabcor) for an anomalous PHP10-million contract in 2012 to engage the services of a financial advisor in connection with its outstanding debts amounting to PHP1.67 billion. In a 42-page decision dated March 25 written by Associate Justice Rafael R. Lagos, the anti-graft court's Fifth Division sentenced Honesto Baniqued to up to 8 years imprisonment and ordered him to indemnify the Department of Agriculture (DA) PHP4.78 million. Nabcor is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) under the DA and served as its trading and marketing support until it was abolished in 2013. Baniqued had approved the payment of PHP4.79 million to lawyer Rodolfo V. Romero representing the initial payment and remuneration as financial contract for Romero to act as counsel to negotiate a debt restructuring plan (DRP) with the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) in relation