Priority Development Assistant Fund News Today

The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the charges filed against former undersecretary Mario Relampagos of the Department of Budget and Management in connection with his supposed involvement in the alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistant Fund or pork barrel of former Masbate third district representative Rizalina Seachon-Lanete.

The camp of detained former senator Leila de Lima is studying the possible filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus before the courts.

The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the sufficiency of evidence presented by the Office of the Ombudsman against former Masbate third district representative Rizalina Seachon-Lanete for plunder and graft in connection with the pork barrel scam.