Former DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan is assisted in a wheelchair provided by court personnel upon his arrival at the Sandiganbayan in Quezon City on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. —Inquirer photo/Grig C. Montegrande
MANILA, Philippines — State prosecutors argued on Wednesday that their motion to file an amended information to discharge former Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan from the plunder and graft cases against him would not prejudice his coaccused.
“It is our position that it is just a textual change,” Assistant State Prosecutor III Reza Casila-Derayunan told reporters on Wednesday after an hour-long clarificatory hearing on the motion before the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division.
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“It’s not a substantial amendment but merely describes the mechanism of an act already charged in the original information,” she stressed. “It does not cause prejudice to the others.”FEATURED STORIES
