Sandiganbayan junks raps vs. former PCGG execs

The First Division of the Sandiganbayan has dismissed the graft charges against a former chief and commissioners of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) after the Office of the Ombudsman failed to resolve their pleadings on time.

In a five-page resolution penned by Associate Justice Rodolfo Ponferrada and concurred in by Associate Justices Efren Dela Cruz and Rafael Lagos, the anti-graft court ruled in favor of the defendants, former PCGG chairperson Camilo Sabio and former commissioners Tereso Javier, Narciso Nario, Nicasio Conti, and Ricardo Abcede who passed away in April 2012.