Sandiganbayan affirms denial of Jinggoy Estrada’s bid to junk graft case

Sen. Jinggoy Estrada. Photo by Grig Montegrande.

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Second Division on Friday affirmed their denial of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada’s bid to junk the graft case against him.

Aside from graft, Estrada faces a non-bailable plunder case over an alleged P573 million kickback which involved transactions in Metro Manila and Oriental Mindoro worth P350 million; and transactions in Bulacan worth P213 million.

The graft case filed in the Second Division is concerned with the P213 million in Bulacan which state prosecutors said was allegedly a 25-percent kickback to an P855 million worth of flood control projects.

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