Palace moving to axe Garcia prosecutors
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/25/2011The fate of state prosecutors handling the case of former military comptroller Carlos Garcia seems to have been sealed as the Palace is considering the termination of Special Prosecutor Wendell Barreras-Sulit and her deputies who arranged the claimed lopsided plea-bargain agreement in the plunder case against Garcia, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said yesterday.
At the Senate probe yesterday on the agreement it was found that prosecutors handling the plunder case of Garcia did not object when he entered a plea of guilty to lesser charges even when the plea bargain agreement was yet to be approved by the Sandiganbayan.
Senate probers managed to extract this answer from members of the prosecution panel under the Office of the Ombudsman, a matter that lawmakers could be deduced as “gross negligence” on their part.
The Ombudsman, through special prosecutor Barreras-Sulit, was given one week to study the possible filing of the motion to withdraw the said plea bargain deal..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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