{"id":78569,"date":"2016-07-14T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78569"},"modified":"2016-07-14T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:26:24","slug":"ombudsman-files-graft-raps-vs-ex-vp-binay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/14\/ombudsman-files-graft-raps-vs-ex-vp-binay\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman files graft raps vs. ex-VP Binay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53083\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10636089_850422738315892_4943837600201981828_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53083\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10636089_850422738315892_4943837600201981828_n.jpg\" alt=\"Former Vice President Jejomar &quot;Jojo&quot; Binay (Photo from Binay's official Facebook page)\" width=\"720\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10636089_850422738315892_4943837600201981828_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10636089_850422738315892_4943837600201981828_n-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Jejomar &#8220;Jojo&#8221; Binay (Photo from Binay&#8217;s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Office of the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) filed graft charges against former Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay before the Sandiganbayan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ombudsman filed charges for graft, falsification of public documents and violation of the Government Procurement Reform Act against Binay.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were in connection with the alleged overpriced Makati City Hall Building II amounting to PHP2.28 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2015, the Ombudsman found probable cause to file the cases before the Sandiganbayan against Binay and his son, former Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise charged were the 22 other local officials of Makati City.<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales earlier said that they can already file the cases against Binay once he is not anymore covered by immunity from suit as Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Office of the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) filed graft charges against former Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay before the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":53083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[5038,4763,2797],"class_list":["post-78569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-binay","tag-office-of-the-ombudsman","tag-ombudsman","mauthors-perfecto-raymundo","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78569","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=78569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}