Sandigan junks Estrada’s bid to attend Duterte impeachment trial

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division has junked the bid of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada to attend the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Estrada is facing a non-bailable plunder case in the anti-graft court Fifth Division stemming from alleged “intricate mechanism involving illegal budgetary insertions and project allocations” within the Department of Public