Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chairman Manuel “Manoling” Morato was arraigned Monday morning at the Sandiganbayan for plunder charges against him over the alleged misuse of P366 million in PCSO intelligence funds.
Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chairman Manuel Morato did not enter a plea in connection with the P366-million plunder case against him, prompting the Sandiganbayan to file a not guilty plea on his behalf.
The Sandiganbayan again deferred the arraignment for plunder of former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Chairman Manoling Morato.
Manuel Morato, a former official of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), is now in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation, radio reports said Friday midnight.
MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has filed electioneering charges against former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chief Manuel Morato for allegedly using his TV show in 2010 to campaign for then presidential candidate Gilbert Teodoro. Morato was charged with four counts of electioneering activities for allegedly campaigning for Teodoro, then affiliated with the Lakas-Kampi [...]
MANILA—Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was charged Monday with plunder for the misuse of P366 million in Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office funds that went to “fictitious” expenses in the last two-and half-years of her term.
Former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was charged Monday with plunder in the alleged misuse of P366 million in Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds that went to “fictitious” expenses in the last two and a half years of her term.
This was the immediate reply of former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office director Manoling Morato to his inclusion in the plunder charges filed by the Ombudsman against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and other officers and directors of the institution.
For the first time since he appeared in the Senate investigation into alleged anomalies involving funds of the Philppine Charity Sweepstakes Office, Manuel Morato invoked his right to remain silent after Senator Franklin Drilon played a video of his defunct television show “Dial M,” where the former PCSO chair was heard maligning then LP senatorial candidate Teofisto Guingoa III and then opposition senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero.
A television show then being hosted by former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Manuel “Manoling” Morato was played in a Senate hearing on Tuesday to show how he used the funds of the agency to openly campaign for defeated presidential bet Gilberto Teodoro and other candidates of the previous administration.
Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chairman Manuel “Manoling” Morato admitted during a Senate hearing that when he was PCSO chairman, he was “completely controlled” and dictated upon by the Office of the President.
Manuel Morato could find himself in trouble after admitting before a Senate hearing that he had made “favorable” comments about an administration candidate during the 2010 presidential campaign in a government-sponsored television program that he was hosting. Senators said Morato could face electioneering charges for commenting favorably about Gilbert Teodoro, the ruling Lakas-Kampi 2010 presidential [...]
Manuel Morato’s ties with the supplier of online lotto machines whose contract was renewed by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in 2006 without public bidding were unraveled on Monday. The former PCSO chair, under grilling by senators, admitted that a Makati hotel he owned was sold to the supplier’s mother company, but through a [...]
