Former Senate president and now chief presidential legal adviser Juan Ponce Enrile is acquitted of plunder in the pork barrel scam. The Sandiganbayan also acquits Enrile’s chief-of-staff Jessica ‘Gigi’ Reyes and their co-accused Janet Lim Napoles.
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00:00Former Senate President and now Chief Presidential Legal Advisor Juan Ponce Enrile is acquitted
00:05of plunder in the pork barrel scam.
00:08The Sandigan Bayan also acquits Enrile's Chief of Staff Jessica Gigi Reyes and their
00:12co-accused Janet Lim Napoles in the verdict handed down Friday, October 4.
00:17This ends 10 years of trial, with all three senators accused of plunder winning their
00:21cases.
00:22The others are Bong Revilla and Jingoy Estrada, who've both returned to the Senate.
00:27Enrile was accused of receiving 172.8 million pesos in kickbacks from his office's pork
00:32barrel funds.
00:34He allegedly channeled the money to bogus NGOs set up by Napoles with the help of Reyes.
00:39The Anti-Graft Court says the prosecution failed to prove that Enrile himself received
00:43money from the transactions.
00:45Enrile and Reyes have long been free on bail, while Napoles is serving sentence for plunder
00:50in other pork scam cases.