Anti-Plunder Act (RA 7080, as amended by RA 7659)

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1. After RA7659 amended RA7080 Section2, what is the aggregate threshold for plunder?
2. Plunder under amended Section2 centrally involves whom?
3. RA7080 Section4’s evidentiary rule requires the relevant pattern to be established by what standard?
4. An officer, through a proved series of statutory kickback receipts, acquires sixty million pesos in ill-gotten wealth. …
5. An official is shown to possess sixty million pesos derived entirely from a lawful inheritance. No statutory ill-gotten…
6. A public officer repeatedly receives project kickbacks through a nominee, with the proved overall scheme yielding eight…
7. In a plunder trial, the prosecution says Section4 permits conviction upon suspicion of an overall scheme without provin…
8. Explain the effect of RA7659 on the plunder threshold and why possession of fifty million pesos alone is insufficient.
9. An official uses nominees to hold the proceeds of repeated statutory kickbacks. Explain why indirect holding and small …
10. Does RA7080 Section4 eliminate the prosecution’s burden of proving plunder beyond reasonable doubt?
11. What criminal-prescription period does RA7080 Section6 expressly state?
12. Does Section6 apply that same temporal bar to the State’s specified recovery of unlawfully acquired property?