Former Palawan governor Joel Reyes on Thursday gave assurances that he will not leave the country as the Office of the Ombudsman pushed the Sandiganbayan to commit the former official to jail.

Anywhere, while the prosecution is asking the Sandiganbayan’s Third Division to cancel his bail and is seeking his immediate commitment to prison “in view of his conviction” of graft in connection with the renewal of a firm’s small scale mining permit (SSMP) in 2006.

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