THE Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a ruling of the Sandiganbayan junking a case of the Philippine government seeking to pin down a nephew of then-Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco Jr. as his alleged dummy.

In a January 31, 2017 decision that was released only recently, the SC through Associate Justice Alfred Benjamin Caguioa, the SC denied a Presidential Commission on Good Government petition asking to reverse an anti-graft court verdict holding that there was no sufficient evidence to prove that Alfred de Borja acted as Velasco’s dummy.

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