Budget Undersecretary Mario Relampagos and three other employees of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) insisted that the graft charges filed against them in connection with the pork barrel scam are “totally baseless” since they played no major role in the release of special allotment release orders (Saros).

Relampagos, Rosario Nuñez, Lalaine Paule and Marilou Bare were charged with 11 counts of graft as co-accused of Sen. Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada at the Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division.

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