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1'~Ky Notice of Resolution - 2 - G.R ~epublic of tbe tlbilippine~ ~upreme QCourt ;!Manila EN BANC NOTICE Sirs/Mesdames: Please take notice that the Court en bane issued a Resolution dated AUGUST 23, 2016, which reads as follows: "G.R. No. 203563 (Raymundo T. Roquero, petitioner, v. Sandiganbayan (First Division) and People of the Philippines, respondents), G.R. Nos. 203693-94 (Nilda B. Plaras, petitioner, v. Honorable Sandiganbayan (First Division), Office of the Ombudsman, Jaime Regalario, Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, Danilo Lim, and PCSO rep. by Eduardo G. Araullo, respondents), G.R. Nos. 203740-41 (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, petitioner, v. The Honorable Ombudsman and the Honorable Sandiganbayan (1st Division), respondents), G.R. Nos. 203955--56 (Jose R. Taruc V, petitioner, v. Sandiganbayan (1st Division), Office of the Ombudsman, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, represented by Atty. Eduardo G. Araullo, Jaime Regalario, Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, and Danilo Lim, respondents), G.R. Nos. 203978- 79 (Reynaldo A. Villar, petitioner, v. Honorable Sandiganbayan (First Division), Office of the Ombudsman, represented by Honorable Conchita Carpio Morales, Jaime Regalario, Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, Danilo Lim, and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, represented by Eduardo G. Araullo, respondents), and G.R. Nos. 204208-09 (Manuel L. Morato, petitioner, v. Hon. Sandiganbayan (First Division), Office of the Ombudsman, Jaime Regalario, Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel and Danilo Lim, and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, represented by Eduardo G. Araullo, respondents). - This resolves consolidated Petitions for Certiorari and/or Prohibition1 assailing the following for having been issued with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction: First, the Office of the Ombudsman's Review Joint Resolution2 dated July 10, 2012. The Review Joint Resolution found probable cause for filing an information for violation of Republic Act No. 70803 against petitioners Raymundo T. Roquero (Roquero), Nilda B. Plaras (Plaras), Gloria The Petitions were filed under Rule 65 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure. 2 Rollo (G.R. No. 203563), pp. 145-187, Annex F. An Act Defining and Penalizing the Crime of Plunder ( 1991 ). 1'~Ky Notice of Resolution - 2 - G.R. Nos. 203563, et al. August 23, 2016 Macapagal-Arroyo (Arroyo), Jose R. Taruc V (Taruc), Reynaldo A. Villar (Villar), Manuel L. Morato (Morato), and four (4) others-Rosario G. Uriarte (Uriarte), Sergio 0. Valencia (Valencia), Ma. Fatima A.S. Valdes •' . · (Valdes), and Benigno B. Aguas (Aguas). r: .1.·i·.' ' ' . 4 : "' · Second, the Office of the Ombudsman's Joint Order dated September ;· 28; 2l>f2~ which denied the Motions for Reconsideration of its July 10, 2012 ·Review i-Oint Resolution. Third, the Sandiganbayan Resolution5 dated October 3, 2012, which found probable cause for the issuance of an arrest warrant against petitioners. The arrest warrant was in connection with the information for plunder filed under the Office of the Ombudsman's July 10, 2012 Review Joint Resolution. Lastly, the Sandiganbayan Resolution6 dated October 4, 2012, which denied Arroyo's Motion for Reconsideration of its October 3, 2012 Resolution. The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is a government instrumentality created by Republic Act No. 1169,7 as amended (the PCSO Charter). It is the principal government agency raising and providing funds for health programs, medical assistance and services, and charities of national character. To raise funds for these purposes, it operates charity sweepstakes races, lotteries, and other similar activities. 8 From January 2008 to June 2010, Valdes, Morato, Taruc, and Roquero were members of the PCSO Board of Directors.9 During the same period, the other petitioners were also holding government positions: ( 1) Arroyo, as President of the Philippines; (2) Villar, as Chairperson of the Commission on Audit; and (3) Plaras, as Chairperson and Head of the Commission on Audit's Intelligence/Confidential Fund Audit Unit. 10 4 Rollo (G.R. Nos. 203740--41), pp. 128-148. Rollo (G.R. No. 203563), pp. 213-214, Annex K. The Resolution was approved by the First Division, composed of Associate Justices Efren N. Dela Cruz, Rodolfo A. Ponferrada, and Rafael R. Lagos. 6 Rollo (G.R. Nos. 203740--41), pp. 153-154. The Resolution was approved by the First Division, composed of Associate Justices Efren N. Dela Cruz, Rodolfo A. Ponferrada, and Rafael R. Lagos. Rep. Act No. 1169 (1954), An Act Providing for Charity Sweepstakes, Horse Races, and Lotteries. Rep. Act No. 1169 (1954), sec. 1 provides: SECTION I. The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. - The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, hereinafter designated the Office, shall be the principal government agency for raising and providing for funds for health programs, medical assistance and services, and charities of national character, and as such shall have the general powers conferred in section thirteen of Act Numbered One thousand four hundred fifty-nine, and shall have the authority: A. To hold and conduct charity sweepstakes races, lotteries, and other similar activities, in such frequency and manner, as shall be determined, and subject to such rules and regulations as shall be promulgated by the Board of Directors. 9 Rollo (G.R. No. 203563), p. 146, Review Joint Resolution of the Ombudsman. io Id. v ~'ry(" Notice of Resolution - 3 - G.R. Nos. 203563, et al. August 23, 2016 Other persons impleaded in the Information subsequently filed by the Office of the Ombudsman were also public officers: ( 1) Valencia, as PCSO Chairperson; (2) Uriarte, as PCSO Vice Chairperson and General Manager; and (3) Aguas, as PCSO Budgets and Accounts Manager. II PCSO's 2008, 2009, and 2010 Corporate Operating Budgets made allocations for confidential and intelligence funds in substantial sums amounting to hundreds of millions of pesos per year. 12 "In July 2011, the Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations (the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee) conducted a legislative inquiry on purported anomalies allegedly committed by officials of the PCSO during Arroyo's administration, pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 519 dated June 29, 2011." 13 Among the matters discussed in this inquiry were purported irregularities in the use of PCSO's 2008, 2009, and 2010 confidential and intelligence funds. 14 On July 25, 2011, Jaime Regalario (Regalario), Risa Hontiveros­ Baraquel (Hontiveros-Baraquel), and Danilo Lim (Lim) filed before the Office of the Ombudsman a Complaint for plunder, malversation, and violation of Republic Act No. 301915 (First Complaint).I 6 The First Complaint claimed that PCSO's confidential and intelligence funds were diverted for the alleged perpetrators' personal benefit. This was docketed as OMB-CC-C-11-0445-G. I7 Regalario, Hontiveros-Baraquel, and Lim asserted that PCSO's having had confidential and intelligence funds was, in itself, questionable because neither the PCSO Charter nor the General Appropriations Acts for 2008, 2009, and 2010 allocated intelligence funds for PCS0.18 The diversion of intelligence funds, as well as Arroyo's acquiescence to it, was purportedly confirmed by Uriarte in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on July 7, 2011. During this hearing, Uriarte supposedly submitted reports and documents of the disbursement of confidential and intelligence funds directly to Arroyo. 19 Regalario, Hontiveros-Baraquel, and Lim further alleged that the release of intelligence funds was done in bad faith because "there was no II Jd.at115-116. 12 Id. at 147-153. 13 Id.at153. 14 Id. at 154. 15 Rep. Act No. 3019 is otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. 16 Rollo, p. 154. i1 Id. is Id. 19 Id. ~rrr/~ Notice of Resolution - 4 - G.R. Nos. 203563, et al. August 23, 2016 actual intelligence project to be funded in the first place."20 They added that "[t]he scheme allegedly led to the misappropriation of public funds exceeding P50,000,000.00."21 On November 29, 2011, a Second Complaint22 was filed before the Office of the Ombudsman, this time by PCSO itself. This was docketed as OMB-C-C-0800-L.23 PCSO, then represented by Board Secretary Eduardo G. Araullo, charged Arroyo, Uriarte, Valencia, Morato, Roquero, Taruc, Valdes, Aguas, Villar and Plaras with plunder and violation of Section 3(a) and (c)24 of Republic Act No. 3019.25 The Second Complaint emphasized that PCSO's confidential and intelligence funds must be used for specific confidential and counter­ intelligence purposes, such as monitoring charity projects, investigating anomalies related to the "Botika ng Masa," and scams perpetrated against lotto bettors and winners. 26 Despite access to existing confidential and intelligence funds in PCSO's Corporate Operating Budget, Uriarte supposedly requested additional confidential and intelligence funds amounting to P310,000,000.00 from July 2007 to January 2010. These requests were all approved by Arroyo and confirmed by Uriarte, Valencia, Morato, Taruc, Roquero and Valdes. 27 PSCO alleged that Arroyo, Uriarte, Valencia, Morato, Roquero, Taruc, Valdes, Aguas, Villar and Plaras conspired with one another to divert and appropriate funds drawn from the confidential and intelligence funds in an aggregate amount of P391,943,177.00.28 The Second Complaint likewise alleged that Aguas facilitated the withdrawal of the amounts by certifying the requisite vouchers, and that zo Id. 21 Id. 22 Id. at. 114-123, Annex D. 23 Id. at 114. 24 Rep. Act No. 3019 (1960), secs. 3(a) and 3(c) provide: Section 3. Corrupt practices
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