Friday, February 24, marks six years since Leila de Lima's arrest. What is the former senator being accused of? Read this explainer FromOurArchives:
of Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday, February 23, over one of 3 criminal charges filed against her.
According to the charge sheet, between November 2012 and March 2013, De Lima and former Bureau of Corrections officer-in-charge Rafael Ragos allegedly extorted money from Bilibid inmates. This combined P10 million, with the addition of P100,000 collected from the “tara” of each of the high-profile drug inmates in NBP, was allegedly given to De Lima through Ragos and De Lima’s former aide, Ronnie Dayan. The second count of drug trade, handled by Branch 206, was filed against De Lima; former BuCor chief Franklin Jesus Bucayu; Bucayu’s former staff, Wilfredo Elli; inmate Jaybee Sebastian; Dayan; De Lima’s former security aide, Joenel Sanchez; and a certain Jad de Vera.
This time, the inmates were able to allegedly produce P70 million, which was given to De Lima through Sebastian, Sanchez, and De Vera. Part of the money was also allegedly given to Bucayu through Elli.
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