An adjudicator from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Adjudication Board-Region 12 (SOCCSKSARGEN) is facing charges before the Sandiganbayan for allegedly extorting money and fish from tenant-farmers in 2007.

The regional adjudicator, Henry Gelacio, allegedly demanded and extorted money totaling P120,000 and a whole tuna fish from tenant-farmers on five separate occasions, in exchange for the favorable issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) and injunction in an agrarian case filed by the tenant-farmers that was pending with him.

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