Practice question
An officer, through a proved series of statutory kickback receipts, acquires sixty million pesos in ill-gotten wealth. He argues that the old seventy-five-million threshold controls despite RA7659. Which is best?
- The amended fifty-million threshold defeats that particular defense
- The obsolete threshold necessarily controls all current offenses
- No public officer can commit plunder through kickbacks
- Only a single cash receipt may count
- The amount is automatically a civil debt only
Legal references
- RA7659 Section12; RA7080 Section1(d)(2): https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1993/ra_7659_1993.html
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