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MANILA, Philippines – Senator Bong Revilla is now in a jail cell after surrendering on Friday, June 20 to the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan, which found probable cause to make him stand trial for plunder and graft charges.
Who is next?
In the biggest corruption scandal to hit the Philippine Senate, two other senators face imminent arrest over their alleged involvement in the pork barrel scam: Senator Jinggoy Estrada and Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile.
While Revilla is detained at Camp Crame, the arrest warrant for Senator Estrada has yet to be signed.
Like Revilla, Estrada says he’s also wiling to surrender. This will not be his first time in jail. In 2001, he was arrested, and later acquitted, for plunder along with his father for receiving payoffs from illegal numbers game jueteng.
Enrile was first arrested in 1990 for his alleged participation in the 1989 coup attempt against former president Cory Aquino and in 2001 for the charge of inciting to sedition.
The 90-year-old senator remains calm facing his third arrest and says he still believes in a justice system adhering to the “straight and narrow path.”
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