The Sandiganbayan’s Third Division has found basis to try the graft and malversation charges against former Davao del Sur Rep. Marc Cagas 4th and several others in connection with the P5.4-million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam.

The Office of the Ombudsman filed the cases earlier this year alleging that Cagas “unilaterally chose and indorsed” the “unaccredited and unqualified” Farmerbusiness Development Corporation (FDC) as project partner in implementing PDAF-funded livelihood and development projects for villages in Davao del Sur’s First District which turned out to be non-existent.