The Office of the Ombudsman asked the Sandiganbayan Third Division to inhibit one of its associate justices in the malversation case against former Sen. Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr.
Prosecutors filed the motion to inhibit on Monday against Associate Justice Ronald Moreno, who voted to grant Revilla’s bail.
A member of the prosecutorial team on Tuesday said the Ombudsman’s Office of the Special Prosecutor filed the motion.
Third Division members voted 2-1, allowing Revilla to post P1 million bail for his provisional liberty.
Aside from Moreno, Associate Justice Fritz Bryn Delos Santos voted to grant Revilla’s bail.
Associate Justice Karl Miranda, chairperson of the Third Division, voted to deny Revilla’s bail.
Revilla faces a malversation of public funds case for allegedly conspiring in the illegal disbursement of P76.9 million for a purported ghost flood control project of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Bulacan’s Pandi town worth P92.8 million, supposedly in exchange for a 25-percent cut. He has repeatedly denied the accusation.