00:00The Sandigan Bayan denies the Ombudsman's request to drop former DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan as one of Senator Gingoy Estrada's
00:08co-accused.
00:08This in a graft case stemming from alleged flood control project corruption.
00:12In the case, the Ombudsman alleges the accused conspired with one another to receive kickbacks from flood control projects.
00:18The Sandigan Bayan says the proposed amended information, quote,
00:21removes the only co-accused and purported conspirator of accused Estrada from the case.
00:26The graft court, in denying the Ombudsman's request, explains,
00:30dropping Bonoan modifies the theory of criminal liability from conspiracy to individual liability.
00:35But the Sandigan Bayan says the Ombudsman may still push to make him a state witness.
00:40In May, the Ombudsman charged Estrada, Bonoan, and DPWH National Capital Region officials
00:45with plunder and graft over an alleged kickback scheme in the Public Works Department.
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