Former Chairman Camilo Sabio of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) appealed his two graft convictions in connection with PCGG’s two lease deals for service vehicles totaling P12 million.

Sabio, in a 10-page motion for reconsideration lodged before the Sandiganbayan’s First Division, argued that the P5.39 million and P6.73 million lease deals of the PCGG with the United Coconut Planters’ Bank (UCPB) Leasing and Finance Corporation (ULFC) did not have to undergo the mandatory requirements of the procurement process and implementation set forth in the procurement law because ULFC was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the government-sequestered UCPB of which Sabio was one of the Board of Directors.

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