CONVICTED AGAIN. A file photo of former PCGG Chair Camilo Sabio when he was convicted of two counts of graft on June 22, 2017. Photo by Lian Buan/Rappler
"Let a warrant of arrest be issued against the said accused and the post-promulgation bond he posted be cancelled," said the Sandiganbayan 4th Division in a decision dated January 27, but released only to media on Monday, March 9.of graft for trying to influence his brother, the late former Court of Appeals Justice Jose Sabio, to favor a Government Service Insurance System official who called for his help.
But in the decision of the 4th Division, the court denied Sabio's appeal, saying there is no violation of double jeopardy.For entertaining the call of GSIS Board of Trustees member Jesus Santos, and therefore allowing himself to be influenced, so he could help the GSIS in a case by MeralcoIn November 2019, the Sandiganbayan acquitted Sabio for the 2nd graft charge because one element of the crime is that the respondent must have influenced another to perform an unlawful act.
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