The Sandiganbayan on Friday found former Maguindanao governor Sajid Ampatuan guilty on eight counts of graft and eight counts of falsification of public documents charges involving P20 million worth of ghost projects involving roads.
The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division, led by Associate Justice Mary Ann Corpuz-Mañalac, subsequently ordered the arrest of Ampatuan since the convicted former public official failed to be physically present for the promulgation.
The anti-graft court also ordered Ampatuan to pay the Maguindanao provincial government P22 million as indemnity due to his multiple graft conviction. "He is in Maguindanao," Castro told the Sandiganbayan justices when asked about his client's whereabouts.
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