00:01Senator Bong Revilla refuses to enter a plea as he faces the Sandigan Bayan Monday, February 16,
00:06prompting the court to enter a not guilty plea for him.
00:10ABS-CBN reports Revilla's counsel, Francesca Sena, said they did not enter a plea because
00:14the former senator questions the legality and validity of the cases against him.
00:18Revilla is being slapped with a malversation charge over allegations he had received kickbacks
00:23from a flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan, worth P92.8 million.
00:27He was charged alongside an accountant of the Public Works and Highways Department, Juanito Mendoza,
00:32who also claims his innocence before the anti-graft court's third division.
00:36Revilla is at the center of the two biggest corruption scandals in the country,
00:39the pork barrel scam and the multi-billion peso flood control corruption mess.
00:43He had been at the Sandigan Bayan a couple of times before for his pork barrel cases where he secured
00:48acquittals.
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