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Article: Court Junks Estrada's Motion to Quash Perjury Case
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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The Philippine anti-graft court junked Friday the motion to quash
the perjury case filed by the lawyers of former President Joseph
Estrada for lack of merit.
In junking the motion on the perjury case, the court said whether
or not a government official will truthfully state his aggregate ill-
gotten wealth in his annual statement of assets and liabilities is
at best a question that begs a debate.
In addition to a plunder charge, ...