The Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division has acquitted former Department of Justice (DOJ) secretary Hernando “Nani” Perez of falsifying his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN), in connection with a $2-million extortion complaint by former Manila representative Mark Jimenez.

Perez was accused in 2008 of falsifying his SALN ending December 2001 while he was DOJ secretary for allegedly failing to disclose his and/or his wife Rosario’s bank deposits worth $1.7 million.

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