Ex-PCGG chief Sabio acquitted | Inquirer

Ex-PCGG chief Sabio acquitted

04:00 AM April 21, 2016

A Division of the Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chair Camilo S. Sabio of graft and malversation.

Sabio had been accused of pocketing ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family worth almost P12 million.

In acquitting Sabio, the Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division on Wednesday cited “insufficiency of evidence engendering reasonable doubt.”

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The resolution was penned by Associate Justice Maria Cristina Cornejo. Three other justices concurred: Jose Hernandez, Rodolfo A. Ponferrada and Michael Frederick Musngi.

In 2011, the Ombudsman filed charges against Sabio allegedly for misusing P10.35 million, which the PCGG received from sequestered firm Mid-Pasig Land Development Corp. Aries Joseph Hegina,

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