By Nestor P. Burgos Jr.
Inquirer Visayas
8:48 am | Monday, January 21st, 2013
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — A congressional candidate and co-accused of former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a P366-million plunder case over the alleged misuse of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds, has surrendered to authorities.
Former PCSO director Raymundo Roquero turned himself in to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Camp Crame Friday evening, said his lawyer Victoriano Orocio who accompanied him.
“My client has submitted himself to the jurisdiction of the court while our petition for certiorari and for a temporary restraining order is still pending before the Supreme Court,” Orocio told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Roquero is among the 10 former government officials, including Arroyo, accused of misusing P366 million in PCSO intelligence funds from 2008 to 2010.
The Sandiganbayan’s First Division on Oct. 3 issued an order for their arrest. Two of Roquero’s co-accused, former PCSO chair Sergio Valencia and assistant manager for finance Benigno Aguas, earlier surrendered after the arrest warrants were issued.
Roquero has filed a separate petition before the Supreme Court seeking to stop the implementation of the resolution and arrest order of the Sandiganbayan’s First Division.
A former mayor of Valderrama town in Antique and a member of a prominent political clan in the province, Roquero is a candidate for representative of the lone congressional district of Antique against re-electionist Rep. Paolo Everardo Javier of the ruling Liberal Party (LP).
He is running under the “Bag-ong Antique” coalition, an aliance of groups affiliated with the United Nationalist Alliance of Vice President Jejomar Binay.
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