SC recomposes graft court handling Marcos suits
By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/18/2010 The Supreme Court (SC) has reorganized the composition of the Special Division of the Sandiganbayan which was put up two years ago by the high tribunal to handle cases in connection with the ill-gotten wealth of the late strongman President Ferdinand Marcos and his family. In a resolution, the SC designated Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Efren De la Cruz as the new chairman of the three-member special Marcos court replacing Presiding Justice Norberto Geraldez, who died of pancreatic cancer last April. Associate Justices Teresita Diaz-Baldos and Alex Quiroz were also named regular members and Associate Justice Ma. Cristina Cornejo as alternate member. Cornejo will sit in the Special Division in the event a regular member is absent, the SC said. Last month, De la Cruz informed the high tribunal that there are pending incidents in one of the marcos cases which need to be resolved In December 2008, the SC ordered the creation of a special division in the Sandiganbayan to look into one of the remaining forfeiture cases against the Marcoses. This came after all the chairmen of the anti-graft court’s five divisions inhibited from Civil Case 0141. Among those who refused to handle the case was then Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice and now SC Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta. Peralta distanced himself from the case because his wife, Court of Appeals Associate Justice Fernanda Lampas Peralta, was Assistant Solicitor General during the Marcos administration. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100618nat2.html |
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