MANILA, Philippines Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chairman Camilo Sabio is scheduled to return to the Philippines Friday after a week-long official trip to Brazil.
Sabio has been summoned to face a Supreme Court panel investigating the bribery scandal in the Court of Appeals on August 26.
The panel ordered Sabio to return to the country immediately even if the International Law Organization meeting, which he was attending, is still ongoing. The meeting is scheduled to end Aug. 31.
Sabios testimony was sought after his brother, CA Associate Justice Jose Sabio Jr, admitted that he had tried to intervene in the ownership case between the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
Justice Sabio said his brother attempted to persuade him not to issue a temporary restraining order against GSIS last June. He said he did not heed his brothers request.
He also admitted that what his brother did was unethical but said he could not consider it as a criminal act since there was no bribe offered to him.
To recall, Justice Sabio earlier claimed that a Meralco emissary, later identified as businessman Francis Roa de Borja, had offered him P10 million to inhibit himself from the Meralco-GSIS case.
Chairman Sabio, before leaving for Brazil Thursday last week, said he is ready to face any investigation on his alleged intervention in the case. - Sophia Dedace, GMANews.TV