Less than a week after his arrest, former Commission on Audit (COA) Chief Reynaldo Villar entered a not-guilty plea before the Sandiganbayan while the prosecution failed to present a witness on Wednesday in the P366-million state charity fund plunder case.

This developed during the graft court’s hearing on Villar’s urgent omnibus motion on conduct of arraignment, his continued detention in the Camp Crame Criminal Investigation and Detention Group and his petition for bail after arraignment.

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