Former President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo arrested for plunder | Sun.Star.

Arroyo arrested for plunder
October 4, 2012

MANILA (Updated) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) served an arrest warrant Thursday on former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for a charge of plunder

Senior Superintendent Joel Coronel, PNP Criminal Investigation Group National Capital Region chief, said they served the warrant on Arroyo at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon around 4 p.m.

The Pampanga representative was admitted Thursday morning at the VMMC after complaining of numbness of her hands. She returned to the VMMC, prior to the service of the arrest order, for a regular therapy for a neck injury.

Her attending doctors said she is suffering from dehydration and had to be confined.

The warrant was issued Wednesday by the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan over the alleged misuse of P365 million in Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds during her presidency.

Arroyo was previously put under arrest at the VMMC on a charge of electoral sabotage, but she jumped bail.

Coronel said Arroyo was with her lawyer, Anacleto Diaz, and her spokesperson, Elena Bautista Horn, during the service of the warrant.

He said Arroyo underwent medical check-up and other standard procedures like finger-printing upon the service of the warrant.

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