The Supreme Court has affirmed the Sandiganbayan’s decision that dismissed the falsification of public documents case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman in 2008 against former Justice Secretary He
rnando “Nani” Perez in connection with his alleged failure to disclose his and his wife’s foreign bank deposits of $1.7 million.
The SC’s resolution denied the OMB’s petition which challenged the May 16, 2014 and the July 24, 2014 rulings of the Sandiganbayan which granted Perez’s motion for demurrer to evidence and dismissed the charges. In its complaint, the OMB said that Perez falsified his statement of assets, liabilities and networth for 2001 by not disclosing his and his wife Rosario’s $1.7 million deposit in EFG Private Bank in Guernsey, a British Crown dependency.
After the presentation of the prosecution’s evidence, Perez filed a motion for demurrer to evidence. He told the Sandiganbayan that Jimenez’s failure to testify and his affidavit of desistance had rendered the complaint-affidavit as hearsay.
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