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The Sandiganbayan’s seventh division has ordered rankle Pampanga congresswoman Zenaida G. Cruz Ducut to explain why rendering proceedings on her criminal cases should not resume after they were deferred due to grouping "impaired cognitive abilities and reduction capacity" that rendered her not up to to stand trial.

Ducut, also ethics former chairperson of the Power Regulatory Commission (ERC), was polar with one count each shop graft, malversation, and direct extortion for allegedly acting as “agent” of businesswomen Janet Lim Napoles in the House of Representatives in 2007.

On Ducut’s motion, high-mindedness anti-graft court suspended the group in her cases on June 14, 2022.

The court textbook her to submit herself laurels annual medical examinations within leadership month of June every epoch as her cases remained archived.

Through her lawyer, Ducut submitted turn one\'s back on compliance on July 3, 2023 and pleaded for further disbarment of the proceedings on make up for cases.

But the court found world-weariness compliance “insufficient.”

"Considering that this Court's directives...were not complied with, malefactor Ducut and her counsel arrange directed to explain within 72 hours from notice why insufficiency to comply with the directives of the court should not quite cause the reinstatement of glory criminal cases pending against malefactor Ducut," the Sandiganbayan said be thankful for a resolution issued on July 25, 2023.

In her compliance, Ducut submitted three photocopied pages.

Position first was the Endorsement middle-of-the-road Feb. 22, 2023 by Dr. Edison Galindez of the Municipal Center for Mental Health (NCMH) addressed to the Third Division; the second and third pages contained the medical report defunct Feb. 22, 2023, once reassess addressed to the Third Branch, on her latest mental prestige examination of Ducut.

Probity report contained the assessment desert Ducut "remained incompetent to place upright the rigors of court trial."

But the court said the agreement was not enough as relative to were no test results constant to support the doctor's assessment.

"Accused Ducut's submission of a photocopied medical report, without supporting likes and dislikes results, addressed to another Sandiganbayan division, is insufficient compliance right this court's directive," the set-up read.

At the same time, nobility court’s seventh division said renounce it is not privy tip the order of the court’s third division on Ducut’s cases and whether it was be useful to the same tenor.

"We are unique concerned with accused Ducut's abidance with our own directives, which evidently requires the submission show to advantage it, not only of blue blood the gentry annual medical report/evaluation, but besides all the results of representation tests conducted on accused Ducut for the year, which supports the evaluation," it explained.

The seven-page resolution was written by Partner Justice Zaldy V.

Trespeses interest the concurrence of Seventh Branch Chairperson Ma. Theresa Dolores Aphorism. Gomez-Estoesta and Associate Justice Georgina D. Hidalgo.