Court junks case vs ex-Leyte town mayor

The Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division has thrown out a graft case filed last year against former Capoocan (Leyte) Mayor Federico Carolino Sr. and several others in connection with an allegedly anomalous procurement of two dump trucks in 2008.

In a nine-page resolution, the court granted the motion to quash filed by Carolino as well as then-Bids and Awards Committee members Pio Antonio Borrel, Macario Noel Gullemas, Letecia Merelos and Jesalie Loteyro, who said that their right to due process of law and to speedy case disposition were violated because there was inordinate delay in the filing of the case.