The Office of the Ombudsman has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to order the Sandiganbayan to suspend the application of the inordinate delay doctrine that the anti-graft court had used in junking several graft complaints. The Ombudsman wants the high court en banc to rule on the case because of its implications on jurisprudence. The anti-graft court recently dismissed the graft case filed in 2015 against former Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) President Winston Garcia and several others because the Office of the Ombudsman sat on the case for 10 years. The case stemmed from the allegedly anomalous award of the GSIS eCard project to a bank in 2004. REINA TOLENTINO

Source: Manila Times April 01, 2017 11:48 UTC