{"id":116185,"date":"2017-09-05T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=116185"},"modified":"2017-09-05T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:00:43","slug":"ex-palawan-guv-pleads-not-guilty-to-malampaya-fund-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/05\/ex-palawan-guv-pleads-not-guilty-to-malampaya-fund-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Palawan guv pleads \u2018not guilty\u2019 to Malampaya fund scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109110\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAN-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109110\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAN-1.png\" alt=\"The Sandiganbayan said that Echiverri still needed to secure an approval from the Sanggunian for the project despite the ordinance. (PNA photo)\" width=\"221\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAN-1.png 221w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAN-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reyes entered his please before the Sandiganbayan Second Division against the 36 counts of violation of Republic Act No. 3019, or the &#8220;Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act,&#8221; after his alleged involvement in \u00a0a series of construction projects in 2008. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes on Tuesday entered a \u201cnot guilty\u201d plea before the Sandiganbayan over the alleged misuse of PHP1.53-billion of Malampaya funds.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes entered his plea before the Sandiganbayan Second Division against the 36 counts of violation of Republic Act No. 3019, or the \u201cAnti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act\u201d, after his alleged involvement in a series of construction projects in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 36 counts, 11 are for violation of Section 3(e) of RA No. 3019 for his alleged \u201cconspiracy\u201d with private individuals in the \u201cirregular bidding\u201d of Malampaya.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the 22 counts are for violation of Section 3(g) of RA No. 3019 when he allegedly entered into 22 contracts which were not needed by the provincial government of Palawan.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining three counts are for violation of Section 3(e) of RA No. 3019 for allegedly approving 11 disbursement vouchers for the payment of three projects without the proper documents.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Reyes, 39 other respondents are facing the same number of charges.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes was earlier sentenced to suffer the penalty of six to eight years\u2019 imprisonment after the Sandiganbayan found him guilty of graft for the anomalous renewal of small-scale mining permits in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes on Tuesday entered a \u201cnot guilty\u201d plea before the Sandiganbayan over the alleged misuse &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[22974,22973,22975,6155,1594],"class_list":["post-116185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-former-palawan-governor","tag-joel-reyes","tag-malampaya-funds","tag-not-guilty","tag-sandiganbayan","mauthors-perfecto-raymundo","mauthors-jr","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}