To declog the dockets of the Sandiganbayan with the least cost to the government and hasten resolution of corruption cases, a House leader proposed to allow individual justices of the anti-graft court to sit and receive evidence, in behalf of his or her division, instead of requiring the presence of three justices before a case is heard and evidence is accepted.

Rep. Romero “Miro” Quimbo (2nd District, Marikina City) filed the proposal embodied in House Bill 3872, saying perhaps one of the legal loopholes which inadvertently aid corruption in the country are the snail-paced prosecution and adjudication of cases particularly in the Sandiganbayan.

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