Published June 4, 2021, 12:37 PM
Sandiganbayan
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the conviction of former Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Constantino G. Jaraula, businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, and three others for graft and malversation in the misuse of P28.8 million in Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2007.
Aside from Jaraula and Napoles, also upheld was the conviction of 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.
They were sentenced to a prison term ranging from six to 10 years in each of their three graft convictions and were also ordered to indemnify the government in the sum of P28.8 million.
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.