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Sandiganbayan orders ex-Rep. Dumpit nabbed

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The Sandiganbayan Seventh Division ordered the arrest of former Rep. La Union Thomas Dumpit Jr. in connection with his alleged P43.65-million pork barrel scam case.

In a resolution, the anti-graft court found probable cause for the issuance of an arrest warrant against Dumpit on his malversation of public funds, malversation through falsification, and violations of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act cases.

“The Court finds that there is substantial basis to support the finding of probable cause for the purpose of issuing a warrant of arrest against accused and hold them for trial,” the ruling said.

This, after the anti-graft division junked for lack of merit the motion of Dumpit for reinvestigation of his cases allegedly after his signatures were forged though he sent requests to the National Livelihood Development Corp. to allow the use of his pork barrel funds.

The resolution said the anti-graft court could determine the authenticity of Dumpit’s signatures during the full-blown trial o“The duty to determine the authenticity of a signature rests on the magistrate, who must conduct an independent examination of the signature itself, in order to arrive at a reasonable conclusion as to its authenticity. Forgery cannot be presumed,” said the anti-graft court.

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Dumpit posted P315,000 bail for his temporary liberty Wednesday.

Dumpit was charged along with Godofredo Roque as the latter was accused of having bogus non-government organizations similar to the fake NGOs purportedly run by alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles.

Based on the charges filed by the Office of the Ombudsman, Dumpit downloaded the portion of his Priority Development Assistance Funds or pork barrel for the livelihood programs of 18 barangays in Tubao, La Union where the awarding of the contracts to the alleged bogus NGOs failed to undergo the required public bidding.

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