A PASAY City judge acquitted on Monday former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. of two counts of electoral sabotage charges in connection with the alleged poll fraud during the 2007 elections.

In a nine-page decision, Judge Jesus Mupas of the Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 112 found Abalos not guilty of two counts of electoral sabotage after the prosecution failed to prove that there was conspiracy to rig the 2007 poll.

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