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The Sandiganbayan has acquitted a former regional accountant of the Department of Agriculture of charges filed in connection with the alleged fertilizer fund scam in 2004.

MANILA - The Sandiganbayan turned down the plea of a former lawmaker and a former town mayor of Sulu to junk their graft charges arising from an allegedly anomalous PHP5-million agriculture project in 2004. In a resolution dated July 22, the anti-graft court's Fifth Division denied the motion filed by former Sulu 1st District Rep. Hussin Amin and former Hadji Panglima Tahil mayor Nedra Burahan, who are facing multiple counts of graft. Also accused are regional agriculture officials Oscar Parawan, Samuel Simbajon, and Ma. Perlice Socorro Julian, and Commission on Audit's Abduljamar Ingu...

The matter should have been addressed last year when farmers complained about the high price of inputs, particularly fertiliser.

**media[87035]** Former Quirino Gov. Pedro L. Bacani has been convicted by the Sandiganbayan of two counts of graft involving the purchases without public bidding of P4.99 million worth of fertilizers in 2004. Bacani was sentenced to a prison term ranging from six to eight years for

MANILA -- The Sandiganbayan convicted a former provincial governor of graft over the anomalous purchase of fertilizers worth PHP4.9 million in 2004. In its decision dated June 3, the anti-graft court's Second Division sentenced former Quirino Gov. Pedro Bacani to up to eight years in prison for violation of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. Two private individuals, Edilberto and Kevin Apostol, both officials of fertilizer supplier Akame Marketing International, who were implicated in the transactions, remain at large. The case stemmed from the purchase of two b...