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==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]==
==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]==
'''74-year-old ex-judge gets 18 years for graft'''
'''Archdiocesan seminary to hold investiture ceremony'''
*Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/233144/regions/74-year-old-ex-judge-gets-18-years-for-graft
*Source: http://www.mindanaocross.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2888:archdiocesan-seminary-to-hold-investiture-ceremony&catid=59:church&Itemid=110
*09/22/2011 | 06:04 PM
*September 24, 2011
:By KBK, GMA News
:By Sandra U. Sandialan and Cristina U. Codilla




A former presiding judge in Sultan Kudarat province has been found guilty of graft for demanding and receiving cash from a litigant two decades ago, among others.
TEN Diocesan seminarian-students will take their investiture on September 24, 2011 at the Archdiocesan Seminary in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.


Seventy-four-year-old Valentino Tablang, former presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court of Tacurong, appealed for leniency by noting his age, his disbarment by the Supreme Court, and the forfeiture of all his retirement and separation benefits, but the Sandiganbayan still convicted him and sentenced him to suffer six to nine years imprisonment for three counts of graft for a total of 18 to 27 years.
The activity is one of the highlights of the Family Day, a once a year weekend celebration of the Archdiocesan seminary, to recognize their third year seminarians in the next step of their life towards their dream to become priests.


“This Court… cannot play blind to the fact that it was not only a single complaint that was filed against him but a series of charges wherein his judicial conduct was put into question and those charges have been substantiated," the court’s Special Second Division said in a 36-page decision promulgated last Sept. 20.
According to the rector of the Archdiocesan Seminary, Fr. Ben Torreto, they are the third year archdiocesan seminarian-students who passed their subjects and other requirements in school and the seminary.


“Based on all the foregoing, the Court finds that the three counts of violation of Section 3 (e) of RA No. 3019 charged against the accused have been satisfactorily proven beyond reasonable doubt," the court added.
Seven of them come from South Cotabato: Daryll Dhan Bibao, James Adrian Carcillar, and Ben Ryan Penuela of Sta. Catalina de Alexandria Parish in Dukay, Esperanza; Moises Daing, Jr., Danillo Diaz, and Thomas Francisco Paladin of Nuestra Sra. dela Candelaria Parish in Tacurong City; and Kevin Magbanua of San Carlos Borromeo Parish in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat.  


Tablang was convicted for refusing to pay P3,173.16 worth of gasoline that he bought from a gasoline station from October 1993 to July 1994. Prosecutors said when asked to pay, the former judge told the gas station owner to get the money from his father who had a pending case before the judge’s sala.
The other two are from North Cotabato and one from Maguindanao. They are Gerald Uy and Kent Warren Zamora of San Blas Parish in Pigcawayan, Cotabato and Folrey Michael Magno of San Isidro Labrador Parish in Nuro, Upi, Maguindanao.


In the second case, the Sandiganbayan found sufficient evidence against the defendant for demanding and receiving P12,500 in cash from a litigant in his court in exchange for the lifting of an injunction against a building construction.
In the ceremony, the 10 seminarians will wear their “sutana” which symbolizes that they are expected to live virtuous life with pure motivation and intention as archdiocesan seminarians, Fr. Torreto said.


In the last case, Tablang was found guilty of skimming off P40,000 out of the P74,675 that was placed under his jurisdiction in connection with a pending case.
The 37 archdiocesan seminarians, their family and friends, the formators, and some Notre Dame University professors will be part of the program. The Serra Club has also been invited as guest to the activity.  


The Sandiganbayan said the prosecution presented enough evidence to establish that the accused converted the money for his own use after two of Tablang’s former clerks of court gave statements attesting to the fact that the dismissed judge took the sum.
Archdiocesan Bishop Collin Bagaforo will preside the ceremony.
 
Associate Justice Teresita V. Diaz-Baldos, division chairperson, penned the verdict with Associate Justices Samuel R. Martires and Oscar C. Herrera Jr. concurring.


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==Photo Gallery of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines==
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