MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Third Division on Monday said it junked the move of special prosecutors to ask its member, Associate Justice Ronald Moreno, to voluntarily inhibit from the malversation case trial of former Sen. Bong Revilla over alleged bias. Revilla faces a malversation of public funds case for being an alleged co-conspirator in the illegal disbursement of P76.9 million for the purported ghost flood control project of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Pandi, Bulacan, worth P92.8 million, supposedly in exchange for a 25-percent cut. “The Sandiganbayan Third Division has DENIED for lack of merit the prosecution’s […]...

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