The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the corruption charges against two alleged cohorts of former Agusan del Sur Rep. Rodolfo Plaza owing to their deaths.The decisio
Sandiganbayan finds ex-NABCOR officials guilty of graft, malversation tribune.net.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribune.net.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former officials of a town in Iloilo province in alleged anomalies over the payment of workers' wages involved in municipal projects. The tribunal's Sixth Division cleared on Thursday former Sara mayor Neptali Salcedo, treasurer Edna Pacrim and engineer Roel Salcedo of graft and malversation charges "for failure of the prosecution to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt" that the supposed payees did not receive wages in 2004. A special audit team noted that labor payrolls totaling PHP1.83 million were of doubtful validity, citing similarity in the signatures of the laborers who signed they received the amount indicated opposite their names, data in entries that were covered with correction fluid, and absence of workers' signatures on the receipt portion. The prosecution failed to prove that the accused misappropriated the sum, the court said. "As previously discussed, there is no evidence to show that the payees l
The Philippine justice system is broken and no amount of censorship by the courts or anyone else can change this fact, Sen. Leila de Lima yesterday said.