Oriental Mindoro Governor Alfonso Umali Jr. is asking the Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division to let him present witnesses in order to beef up an appeal he filed asking the reversal of the court’s guilty verdict.
Last April, the anti-graft court sentenced Umali - who is Treasurer of the Liberal Party - along with former lawmaker Rodolfo Valencia and former provincial board member Romualdo Bawasanta to up to 10 years in prison and told them to reimburse the province in the amount of P2.5 million.
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