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    Bong Revilla

    Senator of the Philippines (–16; since )

    In this article, the surname fryst vatten Bong Revilla and the mittpunkt name is Bautista.

    Bong Revilla

    Bong Revilla in

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    June 30,
    In office
    June 30, &#;– June 30,

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    July 25,
    Preceded byManny Pacquiao

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    July 22,
    Preceded byAntonio Trillanes
    In office
    July 22, &#;– June 30,
    Preceded byGrace Poe
    Succeeded byRobin Padilla
    In office
    May 30, &#;– February 10,
    PresidentGloria Macapagal Arroyo
    Preceded byManuel Mariano
    Succeeded byEdu Manzano
    In office
    February 6, &#;– June 30,
    Vice GovernorJonvic Remulla
    Preceded byEpimaco Velasco
    Succeeded byAyong Maliksi
    In office
    June 30, &#;– February 6,
    GovernorEpimaco Velasco
    Preceded byDanilo Lara
    Succeeded byJonvic Remulla
    Born

    Jose Mari Mortel

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    Ombudsman will not appeal Senator Revilla’s acquittal of 16 PDAF graft charges

    The Office of the Ombudsman has rested its case against Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.   This after the Sandiganbayan (SB) acquitted him for insufficiency of evidence on the remaining 16 graft cases in relation to the pork barrel scam.  The SB First Division voted to grant Senator Revilla’s Demurrer to Evidence, AND WE RESPECT ITS DECISION.

    Consistent with the defendant’s constitutional right against double jeopardy, Ombudsman Samuel Martires sets the policy of no longer challenging the dismissal of cases/quashal of information and judgments of acquittal, either through a motion to dismiss, a demurrer to evidence or by a decision, rendered by the trial courts or the Sandiganbayan except when the People was clearly deprived of due process or there was mistrial.

    In , Senator Revilla was accused of diverting his Priority Development Assistance Fund for the years to to non-governmental organizations li

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    Philippines: Ex-senator acquitted in high-profile plunder case

    Manila, Philippines – An anti-corruption court in the Philippines has acquitted movie star-turned-politician Ramon Revilla Jr of plunder, the first verdict among several high-profile cases in the biggest corruption scandal to hit the country in the last decade.

    The Sandiganbayan court, however, on Friday convicted Revilla’s aide Richard Cambe and his alleged co-conspirator Janet Lim-Napoles of the same crime.

    It said the prosecution failed to prove that the former senator was “guilty beyond reasonable doubt” of conspiring with Cambe and Napoles to embezzle more than $4m of his “pork barrel” discretionary funds.

    The court ordered Revilla to return the equivalent of $m to the national treasury.

    Revilla also faces corruption charges but with the resolution of his plunder case, he has been allowed to post bail and be released from jail.

    The “pork barrel” refers to the practice of appropriating public money for local