THE Court of Appeals (CA) has turned down an Ombudsman order finding former Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-ignacio guilty of administrative charges hurled against him that led to his dismissal from the Office of the Special Prosecutor.

In a decision penned by Associate Justice Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla and concurred in by Associate Justices Hakim Abdulwahid and Socorro Inting, the CA’s 4th Division granted a petition for review filed by Villa-ignacio as it reversed and set aside a decision dated December 3, 2009, supplemental order dated January 29, 2010 and an undated order of the Ombudsman.

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