MANILA, Philippines — Former Isabela governor Grace Padaca may spend up to 24 years in prison after the Sandiganbayan convicted her of graft and malversation over the anomalous award of a contract worth P25 million to a private organization in 2006. In a decision handed down yesterday, the anti-graft court’s third division sentenced Padaca to 12 to 14 years for malversation of public funds and six to 10 years for graft. ”At the time accused Padaca signed the MOA, she was not duly authorized... to enter into it,” the court ruling read. The third division said Padaca also failed to justify the lack of pubic bidding before it awarded the contract to EDWINFLI. I did not gain a single centavo from that P25 million,” Padaca said.

Source: Philippine Star November 15, 2019 16:00 UTC