(UPDATE) THE Sandiganbayan's Second Division rejected the appeal of former Health secretary Janette Garin to drop the charges against her related to the government's purchase of Dengvaxia vaccines. In a nine-page resolution promulgated on Wednesday, the court thumbed down Garin's motion to quash or dismiss the case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman. It also said that Garin and her co-accused were charged under two separate charge sheets, each pertaining to only one offense. In the same resolution, the Second Division threw out the consolidated motion to quash filed by Bayugo and Ducusin, the motion to quash by Lecciones, and the motion to dismiss by Hartigan-Go. In a statement in 2023, Garin, now a congresswoman representing Iloilo, said her conscience was clear.
