FORMER solicitor general Agnes Devanadera has asked the Sandiganbayan to dismiss the graft case against her over the compromise agreement signed by the state-owned Philippine National Construction Co. with a British lending entity for the payment of its P6-billion loan.
Devanadera argued in a 31-page motion the Ombudsman erred in claiming probable cause to charge her based on a Supreme Court ruling on the deal because the Ombudsman “clearly suffers from a misappreciation” of the ruling.
The Ombudsman earlier charged Devanadera and 18 others for entering into the deal with creditor Radstock Securities Inc. that is disadvantageous to the government. The Supreme Court also earlier ruled to strike down the deal.
But Devanadera said “the PNCC Board did all the evaluation presumably using their own business judgment. These are all on record” and she asked the Sandiganbayan “to assume the burden of determining probable cause simply because the Ombudsman was too prejudiced.”