Bacolod Mayor Monico Puentevella attends his arraignment Friday. Nestor Corrales/INQUIRER.net
Former Bacolod Representative and now Mayor Monico Puentevella on Friday refused to enter a plea on graft charges before the Sandiganbayan.
Puentevella arrived at the anti-graft court around 8 a.m. for his arraignment.
In 2013, the Office of the Ombudsman found probable cause to indict Puentevella in connection with the purchase of allegedly overpriced and non-functional computers for public elementary and high schools in the city with the use of money from his pork barrel allocation while he was still a member of the House of Representatives. IDL
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