Dante Jimenez, Chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), is right. President Benigno S. Cojuangco Aquino 3rd could be held liable for trying to influence the Sandiganbayan when he appealed to the justices of the anti-graft court to consider Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile’s advance age in determining where the indicted senator should be detained while on trial for plunder.

Jimenez said what the President did was “influence-peddling” because the Sandiganbayan Third Division is still “determining probable cause” and if it so determines would then issue a warrant of arrest for Enrile.

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