Former senator Leila de Lima will stay in detention in Camp Crame after a Muntinlupa court denied her petition for bail in her last remaining drug case. ManilaBulletin READ:
In a decision dated June 7, Presiding Judge Romeo Buenaventura of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 256 denied the petitions and motions for bail filed by De Lima and co-accused Franklin Jesus Bucayu, Ronnie Dayan, Joenel Sanchez and Jose Adrian Dera in case 17-167.“Wherefore, premises considered, the instant petitions and motions for bail are hereby denied,” Buenaventura wrote in his decision.
The DOJ charged that between March 2013 to May 2015, the accused used inmates at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa to sell and trade dangerous drugs using mobile phones and other electronic devices, and allegedly got the proceeds amounting to P70 million. “In her Supplemental Motion for Bail, accused De Lima further pleads for the grant of her bail application on the grounds that she is now a senior citizen and has several health issues which necessitated several medical furloughs in the past few years; that adequate and prompt medical attention is always difficult when under detention; and that she is not a flight risk. The Court finds the grounds not compelling,” according to the decision.
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