News Update on Impeachment Trial of Renato Corona

by PDI
The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, resumed session on Wednesday with the chamber expected to decide on two controversial issues –a motion for reconsideration filed against the subpoena it issued to bank officials and bank records of Chief Justice Renato Corona and another request to subpoena some Supreme Court justices in the ongoing impeachment trial of Corona.

Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile, the presiding officer, opened the trial at around 2:00 in the afternoon.

Before this, senators, who sit as judges in the trial, held a caucus to discuss the motion for reconsideration filed by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, who was on a sick leave when the Senate ruled last Monday in favor of the prosecution team’s request to subpoena the representatives of Philippine Savings Bank in Katipunan, Quezon and Bank of the Philippine Islands in Ayala, Makati City in connection with alleged bank accounts owned by Corona.

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