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The camp of Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr. is continuously praying amid the pending petition for bail lodged by Revilla in connection with the malversation case filed against him over the P92.8-million flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan.
“We’ll just have to wait and we’ll continue to pray,” Atty. Reody Balisi, Revilla’s counsel, told reporters at the sidelines of the court hearing on the graft case filed against Revilla and six others, also in connection with the Pandi, Bulacan flood control project.
The trial for the graft case against Revilla and six others is before the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division, while the malversation case is under trial before the Sandiganbayan Third Division.
Sandiganbayan Third Division chairperson and Associate Justice Karl Miranda earlier said that the anti-graft court will try its best to resolve the bail petition of Revilla and his five other co-accused who filed petition for bail by Wednesday May 6, 2026 or 30 days since the bail hearing started.
The only individual accused in the malversation case who did not file a petition for bail is former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Bulacan First District Engineering Office Engineer JP Mendoza.
In the event that the petition for bail is granted, the Sandiganbayan will set the bail amount which the respondents have to pay for their temporary liberty pending the resolution of the malversation case.
A denial of their bail petition by the Sandiganbayan, on the other hand, will keep them detained in the New Quezon City jail for the male respondents and Camp Karingal in Quezon City for the female respondents.
No structure
During the on-site inspection conducted by the Sandiganbayan justices on the project site of the Pandi project last April 15, prosecution witness and DPWH Bulacan First District Engineering Office Officer-in-Charge Kenneth Fernando testified that the P92.8 million Pandi project has zero accomplishment since there is no visible structure on site.
“Definitely, there is no structure there. We don’t even know if those are really sheet piles or how long they are. It appears they were placed a long time ago because they are already rusting and the area is covered with heavy vegetation,” the prosecution added during the same inspection.
Ombudsman prosecutors alleged that the government already paid the project’s contractor, Syms Construction, as much as P75 million despite the absence of a structure on the project site. — BAP, GMA News
