FOR LACK of merit, the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division denied former senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada’s plea to dismiss 11 counts of graft filed against him and subsume these under a separate plunder case in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel scam.

The court pointed out that the plunder case rests on the alleged accumulation of ill-gotten wealth arising from supposed kickbacks, while the graft cases rest on the issues of alleged undue injury caused to the government and alleged unwarranted benefits and advantage given to private persons through evident bad faith and manifest partiality.

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