Jamaine Punzalan

Senator Jinggoy Estrada gets teary-eyed during a press conference at the Senate Building on June 1, 2026, as he announces his surrender in connection with the plunder case filed against him. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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JINGGOY ESTRADA SURRENDERS

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178030893071920260601-jinggoy-estrada-surrenders-MT12.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Senator Jinggoy Estrada gets teary-eyed during a press conference at the Senate Building on June 1, 2026, as he announces his surrender in connection with the plunder case filed against him. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News </span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>MANILA — Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was detained at the Quezon City Jail in Payatas on Monday, following his voluntary surrender to face the arrest warrant for his plunder case tied to the flood control controversy.</p><p>Former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., who is facing a flood control-related malversation case, is <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/1/21/bong-revilla-tried-but-failed-to-bring-clothes-gadgets-into-qc-jail-bjmp-1227">detained in the same jail.</a></p><p>Earlier in the day, Estrada said he <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/1/jinggoy-estrada-faces-second-arrest-warrant-for-non-bailable-plunder-1414">would not seek protective custody from the Senate</a> and surrendered to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG). </p><p>He was subsequently <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/1/jinggoy-estrada-faces-second-arrest-warrant-for-non-bailable-plunder-1414">arrested</a>, Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla said. </p><p>&quot;Sumama po si Jinggoy, binasahan siya ng Miranda rights niya, kasama ang kanyang abogado... Mapayapa siyang sumama dito sa CIDG, prinocess, inaresto,&quot; Remulla said in a separate press briefing.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vZCBL5DA3qw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division issued the warrant of arrest against Estrada just days after he posted bail for a separate graft case handled by the Second Division.</p><p>Aside from Estrada, also facing arrest are ex-DPWH Sec. Manuel Bonoan and other former DPWH-NCR officials over their alleged involvement in the flood control controversy.</p><p>But Remulla said Bonoan was heading first to a hospital &quot;because his hypertension was listed at 192/100.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Imminent na yung stroke niya at 192,&quot; Remulla said.</p><p>&quot;He will be kept there for an undetermined amount of time before he stabilizes. And when the doctor says he is fit to stand trial, he will be brought to the Sandiganbayan,&quot; he said. </p><p>&quot;Meanwhile, full security po siya, hindi po siya makakalabas, at restricted access papunta sa kanya,&quot; the interior chief added.</p><p>He said Estrada and the other accused &quot;were found to be in good health.” </p><p>The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division issued the warrant of arrest against Estrada just days after he posted bail for his separate graft case related to the flood control mess. </p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdwU2ulr_18?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>Estrada claimed that he rejected offers from unnamed sources to turn his back on the Senate majority bloc supposedly in exchange for the junking of his cases. </p><p>&quot;Hindi ako matitinag sa anumang panggigipit, pananakot, political maneuvering para talikuran ang paninindigan kong ito. I will not yield to threats. I will not be intimidated. I will not be pressured into surrendering my independence of judgment,&quot; he said.</p><p>Malacañang belied Estrada’s allegations, underscoring that the lawmaker’s name had been imputed in anomalous projects long before the Senate power struggle this year.</p><p>“Wala pa pong binubuo na majority sa pamumuno ni Sen. Alan Cayetano ay mayroon na silang issues na hinaharap. Baka sila ang namumulitika ang hindi ang ehekutibo,” Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro told Palace reporters in a chance interview.</p>

<p>Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was detained at the Quezon City Jail in Payatas on Monday, following his voluntary surrender to face the arrest warrant for his plunder case tied to the flood control controversy.</p>

Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was detained at the Quezon City Jail in Payatas on Monday, following his voluntary surrender to face the arrest warrant for his plunder case tied to the flood control controversy.

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Jinggoy Estrada detained in Payatas jail after arrest for plunder case

Jamaine Punzalan,

ABS-CBN News

Published June 01, 2026 08:48 PM PHT

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