The Department of Justice has dismissed the perjury charges filed by Sen. Jinggoy Estrada against former Department of Public Works and Highways district engineer Brice Hernandez due to a lack of evidence. Estrada filed a perjury complaint against Hernandez in October, accusing the latter of making false statements under oath and deliberately making up lies to harm his name and reputation. This came after Hernandez named Estrada and Joel Villanueva as senators who were involved in a kickback scheme in the anomalous flood control projects. The prosecutor said the Supreme Court requires the complainant to prove both that the statement was false and that the defendant knew it was untrue. It added that “these contradictory statements alone are insufficient to establish perjury without independent, corroborative evidence of which specific statement was deliberately false."

Source: Philippine Star December 27, 2025 07:28 UTC