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Behest Loans and the Ombudsman: Probable Cause, Prescription, and the Romualdez Ruling
The Supreme Court ruled that the Ombudsman gravely abused its discretion in dismissing behest loan charges for lack of probable cause and prescription.
In Presidential Ad-Hoc Fact-Finding Committee on Behest Loans v. Ombudsman, G.R. No. 136225 (April 23, 2008), the Supreme Court corrected an Ombudsman resolution that had thrown out a behest-loan complaint against the Romualdez brothers. The ruling matters because it clarifies two recurring battlegrounds in anti-graft cases: how much evidence
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