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"Dagupan prosecutor convicted of bribery"
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 17:31:00 03/24/2011
Filed Under: Judiciary (system of justice), Graft & Corruption, Bribery
MANILA, Philippines--The Sandiganbayan has convicted a Dagupan City public prosecutor for demanding and receiving P20,000 bribe money from a person who had a pending case before his office in 2005.
In a 30-page decision released Thursday, the anti-graft court’s fourth division, through Associate Justice Maria Cristina Cornejo, found Assistant Prosecutor Joselito Barrozo guilty of direct bribery and sentenced him to four to nine years, four months and one day of imprisonment.
Barrozo was also slapped a P60,000 fine, and he cannot exercise his right to vote and hold public office during the duration of his sentence.
Barrozo was arrested in February 2005 in an entrapment operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation after a complaint was filed by Jennie Valeriano, a respondent to several estafa and bouncing checks cases pending before Barrozo’s office.
Barrozo dismissed the estafa cases and demanded from Valeriano the said amount as his fee in resolving the case in her favor.
“Accused Barrozo accepted the money given to him by Valeriano under obviously suspicious circumstances. The money, as categorically stated by the giver (Valeriano), was given to and received by Barrozo in consideration of the dismissal of the cases which were the subject of preliminary investigation conducted by Barrozo…,” the decision stated.
The decision further said that “Barrozo’s act did not constitute a crime but was unjust as it was executed without regard to the evidence but simply in consideration of the amount demanded and received by him.”
"Dagupan prosecutor convicted of bribery"
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 17:31:00 03/24/2011
Filed Under: Judiciary (system of justice), Graft & Corruption, Bribery
MANILA, Philippines--The Sandiganbayan has convicted a Dagupan City public prosecutor for demanding and receiving P20,000 bribe money from a person who had a pending case before his office in 2005.
In a 30-page decision released Thursday, the anti-graft court’s fourth division, through Associate Justice Maria Cristina Cornejo, found Assistant Prosecutor Joselito Barrozo guilty of direct bribery and sentenced him to four to nine years, four months and one day of imprisonment.
Barrozo was also slapped a P60,000 fine, and he cannot exercise his right to vote and hold public office during the duration of his sentence.
Barrozo was arrested in February 2005 in an entrapment operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation after a complaint was filed by Jennie Valeriano, a respondent to several estafa and bouncing checks cases pending before Barrozo’s office.
Barrozo dismissed the estafa cases and demanded from Valeriano the said amount as his fee in resolving the case in her favor.
“Accused Barrozo accepted the money given to him by Valeriano under obviously suspicious circumstances. The money, as categorically stated by the giver (Valeriano), was given to and received by Barrozo in consideration of the dismissal of the cases which were the subject of preliminary investigation conducted by Barrozo…,” the decision stated.
The decision further said that “Barrozo’s act did not constitute a crime but was unjust as it was executed without regard to the evidence but simply in consideration of the amount demanded and received by him.”
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