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.
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.
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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