G.R. Nos. 245931-32 - PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, VS. RENE MONDEJAR, ARNALDO PARTISALA, FRANCISCO TOLENTINO, ILDEFONSO ESPEJO, MARGARITA GUMAPAS, MANUEL PIOLO, ROBERTO B. VELASCO AND HELEN EDITH LEE TAN, ACCUSED;ARNALDO PARTISALA, ACCUSED-.D E C I S I O N - Supreme Court E-Library

Ruling

WHEREFORE, premises considered, the Court hereby rules as follows: 1. In Criminal Case No. 25674, the Court finds the accused RENE MONDEJAR, FRANCISCO TOLENTINO, ILDEFONSO ESPEJO, MARGARITA GUMAPAS, MANUEL PIOLO, ROBERTO VELASCO and HELEN EDITH LEE TAN GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of the offense of violation of Section 3 (e) of Republic Act No. 3019, as amended, and sentences each of them to suffer an indeterminate penalty of six (6) years and one (1) month as minimum to ten (10) years as maximum; and to suffer perpetual disqualification from public office. Insofar as ARNALDO PARTISALA is concerned, since he is still at large up to the present, let the case be ARCHIVED and let an alias warrant of arrest issue against him. 2. In Criminal Case No. 25675, the Court finds the accused RENE MONDEJAR, FRANCISCO TOLENTINO, ILDEFONSO ESPEJO, MARGARITA GUMAPAS, MANUEL PIOLO and ROBERTO VELASCO GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of Falsification defined under Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code and sentences each of them to suffer the penalty of imprisonment of six (6) months and one (1) day of prision correccional as minimum to eight (8) years and one (1) day of prision mayor as maximum in the absence of any mitigating and aggravating circumstance in accordance with the provisions of the indeterminate Sentence Law; to pay a fine of Five Thousand Pesos (Php perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage. Insofar as ARNALDO PARTISALA is concerned, since he is still at large up to the present, let the case be ARCHIVED and let an alias warrant of arrest issue against him. SO ORDERED.