{"id":24947,"date":"2014-09-05T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T07:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24947"},"modified":"2014-09-05T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:56:42","slug":"sandiganbayan-rejects-bongs-motion-for-jail-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/05\/sandiganbayan-rejects-bongs-motion-for-jail-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandiganbayan rejects Bong&#8217;s motion for jail transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-767\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1606-my-super-kap-bong-revilla-bow-out-of-mmff-2013-400x252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-767\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1606-my-super-kap-bong-revilla-bow-out-of-mmff-2013-400x252-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1606-my-super-kap-bong-revilla-bow-out-of-mmff-2013-400x252-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1606-my-super-kap-bong-revilla-bow-out-of-mmff-2013-400x252.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ramon &#8216;Bong&#8217; Revilla Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Sandiganbayan First Division junked Senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla&#8217;s petition to transfer to another jail facility managed by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a ruling issued yesterday, the anti-graft court decided to keep Revilla and his former chief of staff Richard Cambe at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center in Camp Crame.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The petition earlier filed by the senator, asking the court to move him to a a new detention facility was dismissed for lack of merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, there is no hard and fast rule mandating that a detainee must be placed in a jail. On the contrary, detention in facilities other than a jail is sanctioned in our jurisdiction,\u201d the ruling read.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the senator&#8217;s arguments the Sandiganbayan justices agreed that the PNP Custodial Center is not a detention facility.<\/p>\n<p>Revilla was charged with plunder and graft cases before the Sandiganbayan for his alleged involvement in the pork barrel scam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court solicitously agrees that it is the fact of detention and not the place of detention that is important,\u201d the decision added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Sandiganbayan First Division junked Senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla&#8217;s petition to transfer to another jail facility managed by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[4998],"class_list":["post-24947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-bong","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24947","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}