The Sandiganbayan has cleared former Nueva Ecija lawmaker Rodolfo Antonino of graft and malversation fees over the misuse of a minimum of P14.5 million price of precedence growth help fund.
At the promulgation on Thursday, the anti-graft court docket mentioned that the prosecution didn’t show Antonino’s guilt past an affordable doubt.
Government prosecutors have accused Antonio, amongst different authorities officers of implementing companies and non-government entities, of procuring over P14 million price of seven,275 livelihood expertise kits for Antonino’s constituents which turned out to be a ghost challenge.
The cost for such kits was made in two tranches: the primary P13 million on March 19, 2007, and one other P1.455 million on April 24, 2007.
As a results of his acquittal, the maintain departure order on Antonino, who was current in the course of the promulgation, has been lifted.
The anti-graft court docket has additionally ordered the discharge of his money bond, topic to accounting procedures.
Antonino’s co-accused Encarnita Cristina Munsod who served because the human useful resource supervisor of the state-run National Agribusiness Corporation (Nabcor) was discovered responsible on the 2 counts of graft and two counts of malversation of public funds fees.
Munsod was sentenced to spend 10 to 17 years in jail for her malversation conviction underneath SB-17-CRM-1595, on prime of perpetual disqualification from holding public workplace and a high quality of P13.095 million which is the quantity misused
In addition, Munsod was meted a jail time of six to 10 years for her malversation conviction underneath SB-17-CRM-1596, on prime of perpetual particular disqualification from holding public workplace, and a high quality of P1.455 million which is the quantity of the misused public funds.
Further, Munsod was sentenced to a jail time of six to seven years for every of her convictions on two counts of graft, on prime of perpetual disqualification from holding public workplace.
The Sandiganbayan has additionally ordered Munsod to pay P40.55 million, the whole quantity of public funds misused, to the Bureau of Treasury as a part of her civil legal responsibility.
Munsod’s counsel, Atty. Raymundo Rivero, mentioned that they’ll attraction her case to the Supreme Court. —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
