The Sandiganbayan’s First Division has acquitted Lipa city mayor Meynardo Sabili and his wife Bernadette Palomares-Sabili of the graft case in connection with a deal between the city and a media services firm in 2012 for failure of the prosecution to prove their guilt.

The case stemmed from the case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman last year accusing the mayor, allegedly in conspiracy with Palomares-Sabili who was the then owner/proprietor of BPS Broadcasting and Media Services, of entering into a contract for the airing of a radio program from January 7 to December 31, 2012 and supposedly paid P30,000 monthly.

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