The camp of Janet Napoles is contemplating utilizing the Sandiganbayan resolution which acquitted her of 16 counts of graft within the attraction of her conviction for plunder now pending earlier than the Supreme Court.
The plunder conviction and graft expenses concerned the misuse of the identical P224-million precedence growth help fund allocation.
“These charges are also the predicate crime of the plunder case which is now on appeal before the Supreme Court. These cases have the same set of facts, have the same set of evidence,” Napoles’ lawyer Atty. Rony Garay stated.
“We do not want to speculate on the outcome of our appeal before the Supreme Court, but definitely because of the rule on double jeopardy, siguro, baka pwede namin magamit,” he added.
(Maybe we will use it.)
Garay was referring to the Sandiganbayan resolution in December 2018 which acquitted Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. however convicted Napoles of plunder.
The Sandiganbayan in a latest resolution dismissed 16 graft expenses towards Napoles because of the failure of the prosecution to show the guilt past affordable doubt.
The similar Sandiganbayan resolution additionally stated that Revilla’s endorsement of Napoles-controlled NGOs as recipients of his discretionary fund formally named Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) was merely recommendatory and was not an act of partiality in favor of Napoles.
Garay stated Napoles welcomed her acquittal, her first within the Sandiganbayan.
“Masaya naman siya,” Garay stated.
(She was completely satisfied.)
Napoles is at the moment detained on the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City because of the plunder conviction.
Aside from plunder, the Sandiganbayan, in a May 19 resolution, has additionally discovered Napoles responsible of two counts of malversation and two counts of graft in reference to the unlawful switch and use of at the least P7.6 million price of public funds of the discretionary or pork barrel of then Davao del Sur consultant Douglas Cagas.
Each malversation conviction within the Cagas case carried a jail time of 12 to 17 years, amongst different penalties, whereas every graft conviction gives for a six to 10-year jail time, amongst different penalties. —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
