Senator Jinggoy Estrada, son of former president Joseph Estrada, is facing a fresh set of plunder and graft cases.
On May 28, Estrada was charged for allegedly benefiting P573 million from budget insertions on flood control. He was charged along with former officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways, but an arrest warrant has yet to be issued by the Sandiganbayan for the plunder charge.
This is Estrada’s third plunder case in less than three decades. What happened to the first two?
First plunder: Jueteng operations
In 2001, Estrada faced a plunder charge with his father. They were accused of conspiring with others to acquire alleged ill-gotten wealth amounting to P4 billion, that allegedly came from jueteng operations, kickbacks from tobacco excise taxes, and stock manipulation.
