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The Supreme Court's First Division has overturned Imelda Marcos' 2018 graft conviction over Swiss foundations, ruling prosecutors never properly authenticated key evidence more than three decades after the ill-gotten wealth case was filed.
Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla says courts have been "too kind" in granting bail to officials convicted of graft while their appeals are pending, and his office will check whether Sandiganbayan convicts are actually behind bars.
Sen. Loren Legarda has filed a third or fourth medical leave extension since Aug. 3 and has been absent from the impeachment trial and Senate sessions while abroad, prompting the Ombudsman to call the pattern "quite suspicious" as it investigates her and her son over an alleged P10-billion ghost solar project scheme.
Anti-corruption group VACC filed an Ombudsman complaint against Magalang Vice Mayor Eller Pecson and former mayor Romulo Pecson, alleging around ₱10 million paid by low-income beneficiaries since 2019 produced not a single housing unit.
The anti-graft court's Third Division ruled the Office of the Ombudsman violated Jed Patrick Mabilog's constitutional right to a speedy disposition of cases by taking almost seven years to file charges over a 2015 Iloilo City towing contract.
A Pasig court issued warrants against Guo and 11 co-accused on three counts of graft tied to the trafficking-linked Baofu Compound offshore gaming hub in Bamban, Tarlac — adding to the life sentence for human trafficking and a ₱1.008-billion tax evasion case she already faces.
The Sandiganbayan ruled prosecutors failed to show strong evidence of guilt in the alleged ₱92.8-million "ghost" flood-control project in Pandi, Bulacan, prompting Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla to say he will press the incoming Chief Justice to keep courts committed to the anti-corruption fight.
The anti-graft court's Second Division ruled that removing Manuel Bonoan as a co-accused now would unfairly alter Sen. Jinggoy Estrada's defense, but left prosecutors free to seek his testimony later as a state witness.
