Former senator Bong Revilla is temporarily out of jail after the Sandiganbayan 3rd Division granted his bail petition on his malversation case.
Revilla is facing graft and malversation cases over a P92.8-million flood control ghost project in Bulacan. He was arrested in January and spent over six months in detention at the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas.
While graft is bailable, malversation is not, so the former senator had to file a petition for bail and attended weeks-long hearings at the Sandiganbayan. Ultimately, the 3rd division justices decided to grant Revilla temporary liberty in a resolution made public on July 31.
The court, however, did not grant the petition for bail of Revilla’s co-accused, which includes former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers Brice Hernandez, Jaypee Mendoza, and Arjay Domasig, among others.
The three justices — Chairperson Associate Justice Karl Miranda, Associate Justice Ronald Moreno, and Associate Justice Fritz Bryn Anthony delos Santos — were unanimous in denying the motions of almost all of Revilla’s co-accused. Moreno wanted to grant Christina Mae Pineda’s bail, but was outvoted.
