THE Office of the Ombudsman is confident of the cases it had filed before the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel scam, despite the grant of bail to former Sen. Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada.

“We are confident, we have never been more confident about the evidence that we have,” Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales told reporters in a chance interview on Wednesday after delivering a speech at the University of Santo Tomas.

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