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Sandiganbayan orders former LTFRB government director Samuel Jardin to give up the whole P4.6 million
MANILA, Philippines – The Sandiganbayan discovered the previous government director of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) responsible of graft for accepting hundreds of thousands of money in change for an agency-issued allow.
The anti-graft courtroom’s Sixth Division sentenced Samuel Jardin to six to 10 years in jail and perpetual disqualification from public workplace for violating Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.
The case stems from a case filed in 2023 that accused Jardin of requesting and receiving P4.6 million in 2019 from a personal particular person tagged as Michelle Sapangila to facilitate the discharge of a certificates of public comfort (CPC) or a route measured capability (RMC). This is able to allow the bearer to function a public transport automobile.
On this case, the allow will cowl 32 vans.
The 88-page choice dated August 14 said that the anti-graft courtroom discovered Sapangila’s “optimistic and categorical declarations” extra plausible than the denial of Jardin, who was appointed in 2018 by then-president Rodrigo Duterte.
“The Courtroom additionally finds that the protection of denial raised by accused Jardin shouldn’t be plausible and never worthy of credence,” the Sandiganbayan stated within the choice.
Jardin claimed that the third celebration person who Sapangila tapped to succeed in him was only a mere acquaintance, however it turned out that he was a principal sponsor throughout the former LTFRB government director’s wedding ceremony in 1989.
A surveillance digital camera footage offered additionally confirmed a gathering between the particular person, Sapangila, and Jardin, however the courtroom famous that the “the portion when Madam Lolit would have handed over the P4.5 million to accused Jardin inside his workplace, as Sapangila stood by the door, is excluded from the submitted CCTV recordings.”
Jardin, who was suspended and finally dismissed from workplace by the Workplace of the Ombudsman in 2020 for grave misconduct, was additionally ordered to give up the whole P4.6 million acquired from Sapangila. – Rappler.com
