Prosecutors are asking the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division to preventively suspend Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito and three of his co-accused pending litigation of the graft case filed against them.

Earlier, the Office of the Ombudsman charged Ejercito and five others of graft in connection with the alleged anomalous purchase of high-powered firearms in 2008 when he was mayor of San Juan. Trial began this week.

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