The Sandiganbayan has ordered the preventive suspension of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo for 90 days pending litigation of the graft and the malversation cases he is facing over alleged misuse of calamity funds in 2012.

In an order dated September 22, the graft court’s third division granted the prosecution’s plea for his preventive suspension which took effect on October 18.

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