EX-PCGG CHIEF FACES GRAFT RAPS

- ganbayan against former Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chairman Camilo Sabio over his alleged attempt to persuade his late brother, who was then a justice of the Court of Appeals, to help a litigant in 2008.

Director Moreno Generoso of the Ombudsman’s Preliminary Investigation and Administrative Adjudication Bureau- B, in two charge sheets, accused Sabio of violation of Section 3(a) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices

According to the Ombudsman, Sabio allegedly “allow[ ed] himself to be persuaded, induced, or influenced by Atty. GSIS board member at the time — “by readily acceding to the latter’s request to persuade his brother, Justice Jose L. Sabio Jr., to help the Government Service case filed by the Manila Electric Co. ( Meralco) which was then pending with the appeals court.

GSIS stemmed from an ownership court division then headed by Justice Sabio, who died in 2012.

Sabio allegedly persuaded, induced, or influenced a public officer to “perform an act con- stituting a violation of rule or regulation duly promulgated by told his brother to favor the GSIS, the Ombudsman said, citing the anti-graft law.

- tigators did not include the late Justice Sabio as a respondent “since records do not show that