PROSECUTORS under the Office of the Ombudsman are asking the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division to reconsider its ruling granting the bail petitions of former Masbate Rep. and dismissed Governor Rizalina Seachon-Lanete and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles.

Finding that evidence shown by the prosecution against them in the bail hearings was not strong, the court granted the bail petitions of Lanete and Napoles in a plunder case filed against them in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel fund scam.

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