THE Supreme Court has ordered the Sandiganbayan to submit the records of the plunder case against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over her alleged illegal use of P366 million in funds from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
In an order she issued on May 25, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno required the anti-graft court to forward to her the complete records of the case “immediately” upon receipt of it.
The ailing Arroyo, who was reelected representative of Pampanga in the May 9 elections, had earlier sought an urgent resolution of her plea for house arrest pending a decision on her bail petition.
She said the high court had yet to resolve her plea for house arrest that she filed in December last year.
She reiterated her plea to be transferred from “hospital arrest” at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City to “house arrest” in her residence at the La Vista Subdivision in the same city.
Arroyo’s latest appeal came after the high court granted her pleas for several furloughs.
In December last year, the high court allowed her to spend Christmas and New Year with her family in La Vista. And in March, the Court allowed her to celebrate her 69th birthday on April 5 with her family at the same residence.
The high court also allowed her to vote in her home province in Pampanga on May 9, and to be treated by her dentist in her clinic in Makati City for four days.