Sandiganbayan (MANILA BULLETIN)
Cleared were former CDA Board Administrator Wendell B. Reyes Sr., Finance Division Chief Gertrudes M. San Diego, and Marissa M. Estanislao, private secretary of the late Vice Chairman Ombre S. Hamsirani.
On April 19, 2004, they were charged together with the late acting CDA Chairman Ruben M. Conti, Hamsirani, and Board Administrator Nicetas V. Torres with giving undue advantage to the Zamboanga Multi-Purpose Trading Cooperative, Dried Fish Dealers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, ERA Integrated Development Cooperative, Badjao Cultural Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative, South Sea Marine Products Processing Cooperative, and Isabela Fish Bularan Multi-Purpose Cooperative.
The charges against Conti and Hamsirani had been dismissed on account of their deaths. The case against Torres has been ordered archived because he remained at-large.