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Former Capalonga mayor Senandro Jalgalado fails to clarify the place the medicines supposedly requested by barangay captains and funded by a congressman’s pork barrel went in 2012
MANILA, Philippines – Former mayor Senandro “Fairly Boy” Jalgalado of Capalonga, Camarines Norte, has been sentenced to 14 to 30 in jail for irregularities within the buy of medicines price P1.8 million in 2012.
The Sandiganbayan Seventh Division, in a choice promulgated November 7, 2025, discovered Jalgalado responsible of graft and corruption, malversation of public funds, and falsification of public paperwork.
In its 77-page determination, the Sandiganbayan mentioned Jalgalado took half in falsifying requests for medicines and acknowledgment receipts from 11 barangay captains.
The medicines had been presupposed to be funded by the Precedence Improvement Help Fund of then-Camarines Norte 1st District congressman Renato Unico Jr.
State auditor Victoria Ramirez had discovered discrepancies within the experiences on medicines that had been supposedly bought, delivered, and distributed to quite a few barangays in Capalonga in March 2012.
A discover of disallowance was issued after investigations didn’t yield proof that the medicines had been delivered. A prison case was filed by the Ombudsman.
“Accused Jalgalado did not account for and produce the lacking medicines, upon demand, with out providing a passable clarification for the mentioned scarcity. It, thus, created a prima facie presumption that the medicines, or the funds for that, had been put to his private use,” the anti-graft courtroom mentioned.
“In positive, the Court docket finds that accused Jalgalado acted with gross inexcusable negligence within the discharge of his administrative and official capabilities, inflicting undue harm to the federal government within the quantity of P1,801,873.75. He’s, thus, discovered responsible past affordable doubt of violating Part 3(e) of R.A. No. 3019.”
For the graft case, Jalgalado is sentenced to six to 10 years in jail; 6 to 12 years, malversation of public funds; 2 to eight years for falsification of public paperwork.
He’s ordered to pay fines totaling greater than P3.6 million, and is perpetually barred from holding any authorities workplace. – Rappler.com
