Sandigan junks Arroyo plea to celebrate birthday in Pampanga | Inquirer News

Sandigan junks Arroyo plea to celebrate birthday in Pampanga

/ 06:08 PM March 14, 2014

Sandiganbayan building facade. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines—The Sandiganbayan First Division on Friday denied the petition of former president and now Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to spend her birthday in her hometown.

The ruling was contained in a six-page resolution issued Friday.

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Arroyo, in a motion filed Monday, asked the anti-graft court to give her a furlough from April 4 to 6 to celebrate her 67th birthday in Lubao, Pampanga on April 5.

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She is currently detained at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.

She is facing a plunder charge for allegedly funnelling money from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s confidential fund during her presidency.

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