(1st UPDATE) The 85-year-old Nur Misuari is not in the list of 40 nominees submitted by his political group, the Mahardika Party EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story stated that four ...

In 2000, Misuari authorized the procurement of a P31-million IT package from MBJ Learning. The next year, he authorized the procurement of another IT package, this time from CPR, worth P46 million.

On May 24, Misuari and six other people were convicted of two counts of graft over the ghost purchases of P77 million worth of learning tools from 2000 to 2001. —Mariel Celine Serquiña/RF, GMA ...