Gigi Reyes will not share his chance with Enrile

DOWNFALL Jessica Lucila "Gigi" Reyes arriving at Sandiganbayan for her trial.

Unlike his former boss and mentor, Juan Ponce Enrile, Jessica Lucila "Gigi" Reyes will remain in prison.

The Third Division of the Anti-Graft Court, Sandiganbayan, dismissed Reyes' motion for unanimous bail. He states that the evidence of the pork barrel evaders "remains trustworthy" and that Reyes' guilt was strong enough to keep her in custody pending her trial for a $ 172 million plunder to which Enrile is facing.

Although whistle-blowers Benhur Luy, Merlina Suñas and Marina Sula never met Reyes in person, the court said that it had "no significant impact on the reliability of their respective testimonies".

Detailed Testimony [19659003] The court again gave weight to their "detailed" explanation of the system to divert allocations from the Enrico, or Hog, Priority Development Assistance (PDAF) fund to ghost projects of false foundations allegedly controlled b Janet Lim-Napoles

The judge added that the testimony of the three employees of Napoles [traduction] "corroborated to a large extent" the findings of irregularities in the use of the PDAF of Legislators by the Audit Commission (LCO)

. , another witness of the prosecution, acted as Enrile 's middleman. Tuason, meanwhile, claimed to have delivered bribes from ghost projects to Reyes from 2006 to 2009.

The court continued to give evidence to Tuason's testimony, even though she could not remember the exact amount that she would have received as the specific projects for which she delivered the commissions.

The signatures of Reyes

"This court can not blame her for her inability to clearly remember the details of the events that occurred more than 10 years ago" For the Court, the signature by Reyes letters of approval of fake livelihood projects "triggered the start of the project".

This despite the absence of ACO's finding that Reyes would have signed other project documents, such as project proposals, memoranda of understanding, reports from 39, completion, inspection reports and disbursement reports, thereafter.

Sandiganbayan applied to Reyes' case his denial of bail on Napoles. the Supreme Court confirmed in a
Nov. 7, 2017 decision.

"This court finds no valid reason for not adopting the same thing," said Sandiganbayan

Corroboration

The High Court had declared in the Napoles case the whistleblowers' testimonies were "consistent, clear and corroborating one another".

Still, the Sandiganbayan clarified that Reyes' bail refusal "in no way determines the ultimate outcome of these cases."

Enrile & # 39; s Looting case n & rsquo; Has not yet been tried unlike the cases of former opponents of Senators Bong Revilla and Jinggoy Estrada

. The resolution was drafted by Associate Judge Bernelito R. Fernandez and approved by Presidential Judge Amparo Cabotaje-Tang and Partner. Judge Sarah Jane T. Fernandez

This is the second time that Reyes has failed in his attempt to get out of his detention. Reyes filed his bail petition on May 29, 2017 after the court on January 3, 2017, dismissed his motion to quash the charge of looting for alleged vice.

Prisoners of Prison

Reyes and Napoles is currently detained at the facility of the Prison and Penology Bureau of Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City.

Enrile, 94, was authorized by the Supreme Court to post a bond in August 2015. "

Accused accused of looting are generally not allowed to post bail, unless their guilt is not proven .

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