Former Surigao del Norte Gov. Robert Lyndon Barbers has posted P140,000 bail after the Office of the Ombudsman filed graft and malversation charges before the Sandiganbayan against him and several others in connection with the alleged anomalous procurement of fertilizers in 2004.

Barbers posted bail on Friday even as the graft court’s Second Division has yet to rule on the issuance of arrest warrants against him and all the respondents in the said case.

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