Juan Ponce Enrile cleared in all pork barrel cases

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The Sandiganbayan acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile of graft, clearing him in all of his pork barrel scam cases. The graft cases stemmed from the allegation that Enrile and other accused allegedly accumulated ill-gotten wealth by coordinating with Janet Lim Napoles.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/sandiganbayan-decision-acquits-juan-ponce-enrile-graft-pork-barrel-scam/

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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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