The Sandiganbayan’s Sixth Division has ordered the 90-day preventive suspension of Pangasinan Rep. Amado Espino Jr., pending litigation of graft cases filed against him and several others for allegedly authorizing two supposedly unqualified firms to extract black sand in the Lingayen Gulf area in 2011.

In a five-page resolution promulgated on September 7 and made public on Thursday, the court granted a motion filed by the prosecution last month that sought Espino’s preventive suspension.

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