The Supreme Court has reversed the conviction meted out to former Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. by the Sandiganbayan in 2020. | via Carmelito Q. Francisco/PDI
DAVAO CITY—The Supreme Court has reversed the conviction meted out to former Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. by the Sandiganbayan in 2020.
Floirendo had sought the reversal of the Aug. 21, 2020, Sandiganbayan ruling that convicted him of graft in a case filed against him by his erstwhile friend, former house speaker and Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez.In the Sandiganbayan ruling, Floirendo was sentenced to between six and eight years in prison and was perpetually disqualified from holding public office.
Of the five-member division, only Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, its chair, dissented. Other members of the division included Associate Justices Amy Lazaro-Javier, Mario Lopez, Jhosep Lopez and Antonio Kho Jr. The graft court said that Floirendo’s mistake was that he failed to divest his shares from the companies owned by his family.The basis of Alvarez’s complaint was the renewal of the JVA between Tadeco and the BuCor for another 25 years, signed when Floirendo was still a lawmaker. Floirendo owned 75,000 shares in Tadeco and 537,950 shares in Anflocor, which according to the Sandiganbayan, meant that directly or indirectly he had a financial interest in the company.
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