The Supreme Court has ordered the Office of the Ombudsman to dismiss the graft charges filed against former senator and now chief presidential legal counsel Juan Ponce Enrile and several others in connection with the coco levy funds. | santostinaINQ /PDI
If already filed, the separate civil action “shall survive notwithstanding the dismissal of the criminal case in view of their deaths,” the high court said. in February 1990 for the alleged misuse of the coco levy funds.
It noted that the preliminary investigation spanned more than eight years and that it was only in 1997 that any movement or action on the case actually began. “Consequently, the burden of proof shifted to petitioner Republic. However, petitioner Republic failed to discharge this burden, as petitioner Republic did not establish that the delay was reasonable and justified,” the court said.
The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his associates were accused of colluding in a scheme to tax coconut farmers, with promises to develop the country’s coconut industry.But the funds ended up in private companies, among them the United Coconut Planters Bank and San Miguel Corp. , benefiting Marcos’ cronies.
In 2015, Malacañang certified as urgent a bill creating a trust fund for farmers, but it got stalled in the Senate.
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