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The Supreme Court has upheld a 2021 Sandiganbayan decision ordering the transfer to the New Bilibid Prison of former Bureau of Immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles and retired policeman Wenceslao Sombero Jr. after finding them guilty of plunder and graft.
Supreme Court (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court has denied the petition of a town in Isabela province that sought to uphold a municipal ordinance that imposed antenna and tower fees on cellular and relay stations. In a decision published online on Friday, the SC First Division dismissed the petition filed in 2011 by the municipal government of San Mateo, represented by its mayor, Crispina Agcaoili, and legal officer Alfredo Remigio, against the Court of Appeals (CA) and Globe Telecom. The case was taken to the SC after the CA affirmed the 2013 decision of the Regional Trial Court of Cauayan City declaring invalid, illegal, and unconstitutional the town's 2005 resolution that levied regulatory antenna and tower fees on private and commercial cellular or relay stations. An annual fee is imposed for the operation of antenna cell sites/relay stations, which include antenna/tower base for citizen's band radio (PHP10,000); antenna mast base/tower for ultra-high frequency/very h
The Supreme Court has allowed the Office of the Ombudsman to obtain bank account records of former president Joseph Estrada, his alias Jose Velarde and his reported mistresses in line with an ongoing investigation.
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