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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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January 22, 2018
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MANILA – The Sandiganbayan has granted the request of former Iloilo representative Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco Jr. for a 12-day trip to Singapore for chemotherapy at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
Syjuco faces a string of graft charges at the Sandiganbayan. Last month he was diagnosed to be suffering from advanced myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood condition needing treatment.
The trip is from Jan. 22 to Feb. 2, 2018. The anti-graft court, however, ordered Syjuco to place additional travel bonds to the Sandiganbayan’s First and Second divisions (P60,000 and P30,000, respectively). The P180,000 bond he posted last year would be for the Fifth Division.
In a decision released Friday last week, the Sandiganbayan approved, too, that the former Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) director general be accompanied by his wife Judy who also faces graft charges at the anti-graft court.
“The Sandiganbayan has required both (Syjucos) to appear before the respective clerks of court within five days from arrival and submit the proof of date of return to the Philippines,” read part of the Sandiganbayan decision on the travel request.
Syjuco filed an urgent motion to undergo treatment in Singapore for his advanced myelodysplastic syndrome associated with marked splenomegaly using chemotherapy known as Azacitidine, which is unavailable in the country.
Attached to Syjuco’s urgent motion was a medical certificate from his doctor Patrick Tan stating that the symptoms of his condition was revealed following a bone marrow study in December.
Syjuco also made an appeal that he be accompanied by his wife every 22nd day of the month until July 2018 in Singapore. He added that they are both not flight risks since they wanted to clear their names in the Sandiganbayan.
The Syjucos’ graft cases were on the awarding of TESDA scholarships, purchase of more than 1,500 cellphone units, and the supposed implementation of a district-wide poultry project./PN
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