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MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has "noted" with no further action a motion on the forfeiture case against businessman Ernest Escaler and former Justice secretary Hernando Perez. In a resolution dated August 22, the anti-graft court said it has "noted for being moot and academic" a motion filed by the lawyers of Escaler seeking to expunge the testimony of a prosecution witness for technical lapses. Escaler sought to do away with the judicial affidavit of lawyer RJ Andrade Bernal, claiming it was filed after the 15-day period granted by the court had expired on June 9 and the court had yet to act on the motion of prosecutors for more time. The Sandiganbayan said "undoubtedly, the judicial affidavit of Atty. RJ Andre Bernal was submitted within the additional period granted by the court" when the court allowed government prosecutors to file the sworn testimonies of their witnesses. In its resolution dated July 28, the anti-graft court ordered the government to su
(File photo) MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has allowed government prosecutors to file the sworn testimonies of its witnesses in the forfeiture case against former Justice secretary Hernando "Nani" Perez. In its resolution dated July 28, the anti-graft court, through Presiding Justice Amparo M. Cabotaje-Tang, ordered the government to submit the judicial affidavits of all its witnesses within a non-extendible period of 15 days and said all other judicial affidavits submitted beyond this period shall not be admitted. The order was earlier opposed by the respondents in the case for failing to comply with court rules. "In the higher interest of justice, the Court is giving the petitioner (government) one final opportunity to submit the judicial affidavits of all its witnesses to ensure that the merits of the case will be fully ventilated," the court said . The case for forfeiture of unlawfully acquired property under Republic Act 1379 stemmed from Perez's alleged deman
(File photo) MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has allowed government prosecutors to file the sworn testimonies of its witnesses in the forfeiture case against former Justice secretary Hernando "Nani" Perez. In its resolution dated July 28, the anti-graft court, through Presiding Justice Amparo M. Cabotaje-Tang, ordered the government to submit the judicial affidavits of all its witnesses within a non-extendible period of 15 days and said all other judicial affidavits submitted beyond this period shall not be admitted. The order was earlier opposed by the respondents in the case for failing to comply with court rules. "In the higher interest of justice, the Court is giving the petitioner (government) one final opportunity to submit the judicial affidavits of all its witnesses to ensure that the merits of the case will be fully ventilated," the court said . The case for forfeiture of unlawfully acquired property under Republic Act 1379 stemmed from Perez's alleged deman