The anti-graft court Sandiganbayan found former Maguindanao governor Sajid Ampatuan guilty of graft and falsification of public documents.
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – Former Maguindanao governor Sajid Ampatuan may have been acquitted in the Maguindanao Massacre case, but not in the graft and falsification cases filed against him for what he did when he was Maguindanao’s governor.
In a 79-page decision promulgated on Friday, January 13, the Sandiganbayan 5th Division meted the penalty on Ampatuan and five other co-accused. The decision – penned by Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Maryann Corpuz-Manalac, with the concurrence of associate justices Rafael Lagos and Maria Theresa Mendoza-Arcega – also banned Ampatuan from holding public office for life.
The former governor’s other co-accused in the falsification of public documents case – Yahiya Kandong, Omar Camsa, Anthony Kasan, Akmad Salim, Jaypee Piang – were sentenced in varying degrees, except for John Estelito Dollosa and Osmena Bandilla who remain at large.
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