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Kaxandra Salonga

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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178477955445920200219-sandganbayan-headquarters-JC-1035.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/>The Sandiganbayan building in Quezon City on February 19, 2020. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File</div>MANILA — The Sandiganbayan has allowed a former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Mimaropa official, who is among the co-accused of former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co, to undergo a medical checkup for a heart condition.In a hearing on Thursday, the anti-graft court’s Sixth Division granted former DPWH-Mimaropa Construction Division chief Dominic Serrano’s request to undergo a checkup at the Philippine Heart Center on Friday.Serrano’s lawyer, Gideon Ventura, said his client has seven coronary stents, small mesh tubes implanted to keep narrowed or blocked arteries open and maintain blood flow.Ventura asked that Serrano’s family members be allowed to assist him during the hospital visit, but Associate Justice Sarah Jane Fernandez said hospital personnel could provide the necessary assistance.Serrano is facing a malversation case in connection with the allegedly anomalous road dike project in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro.During the trial, the defense presented DPWH-Mimaropa Engineer III Oliver Mauleon as a witness for former Maintenance Division chief Juliet Calvo.Mauleon testified that the Maintenance Division’s functions are limited to the maintenance and repair of completed infrastructure projects.Calvo earlier testified that she bore “no direct responsibility” for implementing the road dike project and had no personal knowledge if the steel sheet piles reflected in the first progress billing were actually delivered to the site or if they were the same materials later inspected by DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon.Dizon’s previous inspection found that the installed steel sheet piles measured only 3 meters instead of the 12 meters required under the project’s detailed engineering design.<div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/7/21/ex-dpwh-official-admits-signing-certificate-without-personal-inspection-of-mindoro-road-dike-1440">Ex-DPWH official admits signing certificate without personal inspection of Mindoro road dike </a> <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/4/1/sandiganbayan-upholds-denial-of-bail-for-dpwh-mimaropa-officials-in-flood-control-mess-1431">Sandiganbayan upholds denial of bail for DPWH-Mimaropa officials in flood control mess</a> <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/3/17/roberto-bernardo-to-testify-in-malversation-trial-of-dpwh-mimaropa-officials-0858">Bernardo testifies he got annual P10-million ‘balato’ from Zaldy Co via ex-DPWH-Mimaropa chief</a></div>

The Sandiganbayan has allowed a former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Mimaropa official, who is among the co-accused of former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co, to undergo a medical checkup for a heart condition.

The Sandiganbayan has allowed a former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Mimaropa official, who is among the co-accused of former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co, to undergo a medical checkup for a heart condition.

Sandiganbayan grants ex-DPWH-Mimaropa official’s bid to undergo heart check-up

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Sandiganbayan grants ex-DPWH-Mimaropa official’s bid to undergo heart check-up

Kaxandra Salonga,

ABS-CBN News

Published July 23, 2026 12:10 PM PHT

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