{"id":31268,"date":"2014-11-10T22:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31268"},"modified":"2014-11-10T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:28:47","slug":"coronas-appeal-to-graft-court-to-throw-out-p137-9-m-forfeiture-case-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/10\/coronas-appeal-to-graft-court-to-throw-out-p137-9-m-forfeiture-case-against-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronas appeal to graft court to throw out P137.9-M forfeiture case against them"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6529\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Renato_Corona_official_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6529\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Renato_Corona_official_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Dismissed Chief Justice Renato Corona. Wikipedia photo\" width=\"266\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Renato_Corona_official_portrait.jpg 266w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Renato_Corona_official_portrait-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dismissed Chief Justice Renato Corona. Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Former chief justice Renato Corona and his wife Cristina have appealed the Sandiganbayan to throw out the P137.9-million forfeiture case filed against them. The couple has accused the Office of the Ombudsman of abuse of authority and the Aquino administration of harassment; hence, the appeal to junk the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe present case is nothing but an offshoot of the vindictive desire to continuously harass and persecute the former chief magistrate of the land under the cloak of a supposed crusade against corruption,\u201d the Coronas told the Sandiganbayan\u2019s Second Division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of P137,937,208.88 allegedly reflecting the respondents\u2019 supposed actual cash assets was erroneously computed and simplistically arrived at by merely adding amounts in the respondents\u2019 bank accounts,\u201d they explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Coronas said that the allegations against them are baseless, and that their wealth is not \u201cill-gotten\u201d, as the charges state, but that it was obtained through legitimate sources of income. They also<\/p>\n<p>The former chief justice added that he managed to save up a considerable amount, from having worked in the public and private sector for over four decades, and that he and his family can account for all their assets.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Coronas denied the accusation that they undervalued their condominium units and other real estate properties.<\/p>\n<p>The Coronas urged the anti-graft court to dismiss the amended forfeiture case against them for lack of merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Former chief justice Renato Corona and his wife Cristina have appealed the Sandiganbayan to throw out the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[3673,8571,1591,1594],"class_list":["post-31268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-corruption","tag-former-chief-justice","tag-renato-corona","tag-sandiganbayan","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31268","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=31268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}