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DOJ seeks reversal of De Lima drug case acquittal
The Philippine Star
|July 16, 2025
State prosecutors have asked a Muntinlupa court to overturn the acquittal of ML party-list Rep.
Leila de Lima in one of the three drug charges against her.
In a 17-page motion for reconsideration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) panel of prosecutors noted that the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204's acquittal of De Lima and her co-accused Ronnie Dayan of conspiring and conducting illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) was mainly hinged on the recantation of the prosecution’s key witness, former Bureau of Corrections chief Rafael Ragos.
Ragos previously testified that he personally delivered a total of P10 million to then justice secretary De Lima at her residence. The money was supposedly proceeds from illegal drug trading by convicts at the NBP.
In 2022, however, Ragos recanted his testimony, saying that then justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II had coerced him to implicate De Lima in the illegal drug trade.
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