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00:00Former Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista and former City Administrator Aldrin Puña were found guilty in the Graft case
00:09because of a project in City Hall in 2019.
00:12But Bautista's lawyers insisted that their client is innocent.
00:17Witness, Mark Salazar.
00:23Former Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista was emotional
00:26when he read the ruling earlier in Sandigan Bayan Special 7th Division.
00:31The court said,
00:33Bautista is guilty beyond reasonable doubt
00:36and his former City Administrator Aldrin Puña
00:39in the case of violating the Anti-Graft Law
00:42related to the Online Occupational Permitting and Tracking System
00:46of Quezon City Hall in 2019.
00:50Bautista is the former artist who became the mayor of Quezon City from 2010 to 2019.
00:56The 32.1 million peso project during Bautista's time
01:00was paid without an appropriation ordinance by the City of Quezon
01:05and was paid in full even though the project is not yet complete.
01:09As punishment, Sandigan Bayan ordered Bautista and Puña to be jailed
01:14for not less than 6 years and 1 month and not more than 10 years.
01:19They were also charged with perpetual disqualification
01:23to serve or serve in the government.
01:26GMA Integrated News tried to get Bautista and Puña
01:30to give their statement during the release of Sandigan Bayan,
01:33but they refused.
01:34In one statement, Bautista's lawyers insisted
01:38that they are saddened by the decision of Sandigan Bayan.
01:41Their client is innocent and there was no fraud.
01:45Not a single cent went to Bautista from the project.
01:49No one was left behind, even the Quezon City government,
01:53because the city is looking forward to this.
01:56They are preparing to appeal the decision.
01:59Meanwhile, under the Provisional Liberty,
02:03Bautista and Puña will remain while appealing the decision.
02:08For GMA Integrated News, I am Mark Salazar, your witness.