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Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was arrested anew on October 4 over plunder charges filed against her by the Ombudsman. But before the police could serve the warrant on her, she went to a government hospital, the same facility that she used in a previous hospital arrest. Two of her 9 co-accused have also surrendered, both former officials of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office who, the Ombudsman said, misused the agency’s intelligence funds with the approval of Mrs Arroyo. Plunder is a non-bailable offense in the Philippines. Another former Philippine leader, Joseph Estrada, was also jailed — and convicted — for plunder. But Mrs Arroyo herself, who was then president, eventually granted him pardon.
Read the full story on Arroyo’s arrest here
Read the full story on the co-accused’s surrender here
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