{"id":155567,"date":"2018-03-07T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155567"},"modified":"2018-03-07T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:50:32","slug":"revilla-wont-present-evidence-on-pdaf-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/07\/revilla-wont-present-evidence-on-pdaf-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Revilla won\u2019t present evidence on PDAF cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155568\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bong-revilla_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155568\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bong-revilla_4.jpg\" alt=\"Former Senator Ramon \u201cBong\u201d Revilla, Jr. (PTV Photo via PNA)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bong-revilla_4.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bong-revilla_4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Senator Ramon \u201cBong\u201d Revilla, Jr. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Former Senator Ramon \u201cBong\u201d Revilla Jr. said on Wednesday he would not present evidence on cases he is facing over his alleged misuse of his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).<\/p>\n<p>The former senator is optimistic the anti-graft court would stop the trial of his cases involving his PDAF, also dubbed as \u201cpork barrel\u201d.<em>\u201cHindi ako maghahain ng ebidensya<\/em>\u00a0(I won\u2019t file evidence) vs. PDAF cases,\u201d Revilla told the Sandiganbayan.<\/p>\n<p>In his seven-page motion filed before the anti-graft court, Revilla admitted that his camp deliberately did not prepare evidence against the plunder case because they believe the Sandiganbayan would dismiss the case.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator argued it would negate the petition they had filed before the Supreme Court (SC) if his camp would file evidence before the anti-graft court.<\/p>\n<p>In his petition pending before the SC, Revilla cited his opposition to the decision of the Sandiganbayan to prohibit him from filing a \u201cdemurrer to evidence\u201d, to question the evidence of the Office of the Ombudsman against him.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator also argued that his endorsement for the projects of the so-called \u201cpork barrel queen&#8221;, Janet Lim Napoles, was not an \u201cact of plunder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Napoles is the alleged \u201cbrains\u201d behind the PHP10-billion pork barrel and the PHP900-million Malampaya fund scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014\u00a0Former Senator Ramon \u201cBong\u201d Revilla Jr. said on Wednesday he would not present evidence on cases he is facing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1158,1157,15208],"class_list":["post-155567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-pdaf","tag-pork-barrel","tag-ramon-bong-revilla-jr","mauthors-perfecto-raymundo-jr","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155567","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=155567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}