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Kaxandra Salonga

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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/17836497030391783386873728Screen Shot 2026-07-07 at 8.24.12 AM (2).webp" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Vice President Sara Duterte visited ally Sen. Rodante Marcoleta on Tuesday morning, a day after the lawmaker was arrested over plunder charges.<em> ABS-CBN News/File</em><br/></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE) </strong>— Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Ronald Moreno on Friday pressed the PNP-Health Service General Hospital why Vice President Sara Duterte and Sen. Robin Padilla were allowed to visit Sen. Rodante Marcoleta when it reported that the senator needs to be in isolation due to his mild pneumonia.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/7/7/vp-duterte-visits-detained-sen-marcoleta-after-plunder-arrest-0915">VP Duterte visits Sen. Marcoleta after plunder arrest</a></div><p>“Why are you allowing him to be visited? Who allowed him to be visited when according to your recommendation he should be in isolation?” Moreno asked.</p><p>“Di ko po masagot,” Lt. Col. Benaly Bayani, chief of the Internal Medicine Department of the hospital told the court. </p><p>Marcoleta has been diagnosed with mild pneumonia and remains unfit for travel as doctors continue to monitor his fluctuating blood pressure.</p><p>Bayani said she will coordinate with the CIDG to restrict visits to Marcoleta.</p><p>After the hearing, PNP Health Service General Hospital director Brig. Gen. Portia Manalad<span style="background-color:transparent"> apologized for lapses in enforcing the hospital’s face mask protocol after Padilla and Duterte visited Marcoleta, who had been diagnosed with mild pneumonia and advised to remain in isolation.</span></p><p>“We apologize that there are some lapses na nakita and we will comply with the Sandiganbayan,&quot; she said.</p><p>Duterte visited Sen. Rodante Marcoleta at the PNP General Hospital on Tuesday morning, a day after the lawmaker was arrested over plunder charges.</p><p>Meanwhile, Padilla visited Marcoleta at the same hospital Thursday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/7/9/robin-padilla-visits-marcoleta-1448">Robin Padilla visits Marcoleta</a></div><p>Marcoleta faces plunder charges over the alleged non-disclosure of P75 million in campaign donations from his co-accused, former lawmaker Mike Defensor and businessmen Aristotle Viray and Joseph Espiritu.</p><p>The Sandiganbayan has yet to issue a commitment order because Marcoleta has not appeared before the division following his booking procedure.</p><p>It said the senator would be committed to the Quezon City Jail in Payatas, where his co-accused were detained.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><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/YXf1p8mJ_UM?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>“Why are you allowing him to be visited? Who allowed him to be visited when according to your recommendation he should be in isolation?” Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Ronald Moreno asked.</p>

“Why are you allowing him to be visited? Who allowed him to be visited when according to your recommendation he should be in isolation?” Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Ronald Moreno asked.

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Sandiganbayan questions VP Sara, Padilla's visit to pneumonia-stricken Marcoleta

Kaxandra Salonga,

ABS-CBN News

Published July 10, 2026 10:18 AM PHT

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Updated July 10, 2026 11:19 AM PHT

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