MANILA, Philippines — The trial of the malversation through falsification case filed against former senator Ramon Revilla Jr. and six other people before the Sandiganbayan started on Tuesday.
The case stemmed from the alleged ghost project in Pandi, Bulacan.
The prosecution presented Myra Torio and Jose Jayson Cruz as witnesses before the Sandiganbayan's Third Division where case was raffled off.
The court's ruling on the bail petitions, including that of Revilla, is expected to be out soon.
"We will not preempt what the court's assessment will be but we are very confident in our position," Reody Anthony Balisi, one of Revilla's lawyers, said in an interview with reporters last Apr. 24. "From the time that this, you know, fiasco happened to the time that he was charged, to the time that he surrendered, to the time that we started the bail hearing, and now, culmination, last day of the bail hearing, what have we been saying ever since? There is no evidence that can link [former] senator Bong Revilla," Balisi said.
Meanwhile, the trial of the graft case will resume this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. with SYMS contractor Sally Santos and Monica Louis Ocampo-Santos, who had served as a liaison officer of SYMS Construction, scheduled as prosecution witnesses.
