GARCIA vs. SANDIGANBAYAN | G.R. No. 165835 | June 22, 2005
GARCIA vs. SANDIGANBAYAN G.R. No. 165835, June 22, 2005 Facts This is a petition filed by Clarita Garcia, wife or retired Major General Carlos F. Garcia, with application for injunctive relief in order issued by the Fourth Division of Sandiganbayan denying the motion to quash or dismiss Civil Case No. 0193. This is a suit for the forfeiture commenced by the Republic against petitioner and her immediate family. The forfeiture suit was to recover unlawfully acquired funds and properties that the Garcias allegedly acquires and amassed. Then Republic then filed the Sandiganbayan through the OMB a petition for forfeiture of those alleged unlawfully acquires properties of the Garcias. The case was docketed as civil case 0193(forfeiture I) and subsequently another case of forfeiture involving the same parties was filed docketed as Civil Case 0196(forfeiture II). Thus the two cases were consolidated for convenience and clarity. Before the filing of Forfeiture II ...