{"id":145868,"date":"2018-01-12T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145868"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:44:33","slug":"revillas-graft-trial-reset-to-jan-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/12\/revillas-graft-trial-reset-to-jan-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Revilla&#8217;s graft trial reset to Jan. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50118\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50118\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ramon 'Bong' Revilla (screenshot from YouTube footage)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ramon &#8216;Bong&#8217; Revilla (screenshot from YouTube footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>The Sandiganbayan has deferred the graft trial of detained former Senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla, Jr. and reset it to January 25, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This was after both the defense and prosecution lawyers filed late comments on the proceeding&#8217;s pre-trial order (PTO).<\/p>\n<p>A PTO contains both parties&#8217; list of witnesses and exhibits that will be used during the course of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy antabuse online <a href=\"https:\/\/innomed.net\/literature\/info\/Europe\/pdf\/antabuse.html\">https:\/\/innomed.net\/literature\/info\/Europe\/pdf\/antabuse.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sandiganbayan First Division Chairman Associate Justice Efren Dela Cruz said the deferment was caused by the &#8220;late filing of comments of the parties,&#8221; which forced the delay in the finalization of the PTO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The parties] will have to check if the comments they filed are accurately reflected in the final version of the pre-trial order,&#8221; Dela Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>He also lamented the time wasted due to the delay of the PTO&#8217;s signing.<\/p>\n<p>The parties are expected to receive soft copies of the final draft of the PTO by Thursday. They would then be given two days to comment anew.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties are expected to sign the PTO on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Cruz warned to hold three of Revilla&#8217;s co-accused \u2014 Rhodora Mendoza, Encarnita Cristina Munsod, and Maria Ni\u00f1ez Gua\u00f1izo \u2014 in contempt if they fail to appear on January 25, 2018.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy singulair online <a href=\"https:\/\/innomed.net\/literature\/info\/Europe\/pdf\/singulair.html\">https:\/\/innomed.net\/literature\/info\/Europe\/pdf\/singulair.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the notices of disallowance (NDs) issued by the Commission on Audit (COA), some PHP517 million of Revilla&#8217;s Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or &#8220;pork barrel,&#8221; was released to the Technology Resource Center (TRC), National Livelihood and Development Corp (NLDC), and the National Agri-Business Corporation (NABCOR).<\/p>\n<p>The funds were then allegedly funneled to fake non-government organizations (NGOs) operated by businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles.<\/p>\n<p>Napoles is the alleged &#8220;brains&#8221; behind the PHP10-billion pork barrel and the PHP900-million Malampaya Fund scams.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from 16 counts of graft, Revilla is also accused of plunder for allegedly pocketing PHP224.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy champix online <a href=\"https:\/\/innomed.net\/literature\/info\/Europe\/pdf\/champix.html\">https:\/\/innomed.net\/literature\/info\/Europe\/pdf\/champix.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>5-million worth of &#8220;kickbacks&#8221; by allocating portions of his PDAF to the fake NGOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0The Sandiganbayan has deferred the graft trial of detained former Senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla, Jr. and reset it to January &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":50118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[41039,42946,42947],"class_list":["post-145868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-detained-former-senator-ramon-bong-revilla-jr","tag-revillas-graft-trial-reset-to-jan-25","tag-sandiganbayan-has-deferred-the-graft-trial","mauthors-perfecto-raymundo-jr","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145868","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=145868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281228,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145868\/revisions\/281228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}