THE Sandiganbayan has meted a fine to a former mayor of Kadingilan, Bukidnon town for allowing an illegal cockfight operation in an unlicensed cockpit in his town nine years ago.
In its decision dated Dec. 5, the anti-graft court’s Second Division fined Joelito Talaid P6,000 for violation of Sec. 5 (d) of PD 449,also known as the Cockfighting Law of 1974.
The charges arose from the cockfights held in the unlicensed cockpit around July 2010 after Talaid issued a special permit without the approval of the chief of the National Police or the latter’s authorized representative, as required by law.
Two of Talaid’s co-accused, then-vice mayor Nestor Baliguat Sr. and Dionesio Ranque of the Kadingilan Cockers Association, whom graft investigators said acted as owner and operator of the cockpit, were acquitted for insufficiency of evidence. (PNA)
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