00:00The Sandigan Bayan acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile of graft,
00:06clearing him in all of his pork barrel scam cases.
00:09The graft cases stand from the allegation that Enrile and other accused
00:13allegedly accumulated ill-gotten wealth amounting to 172,834,500 pesos
00:20by allegedly coordinating with Janet Lim Napoles.
00:24Apart from Enrile, the court also acquits Napoles, Enrile's former assistant Gigi Reyes,
00:29as well as several other individuals.
00:33Some of the accused, although acquitted in the criminal cases, were found civilly liable.
00:38Enrile and Reyes were not among them.
00:41Voting unanimously, the court acquits all the accused of graft due to the prosecution's failure to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
00:49The 101-year-old former senator was cleared of his plunder charges last year.
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