In the corridors of a private hospital in San Juan City, the arc of political power met the weight of legal accountability when former House Speaker Martin Romualdez was arrested on a P7.4 billion plunder charge tied to flood control projects. The Sandiganbayan's warrant, served in his hospital room on a Monday evening, transformed a place of healing into a site of custody. Now the state, through the DILG, seeks to draw him further into its institutional embrace — from private care to a government hospital — while the court holds the final word on where a man of his history and health shall be
DILG seeks transfer of arrested Romualdez to PNP hospital from private facility
Former House speaker Martin Romualdez arrested and detained in hospital custody pending transfer to government facility.