THE Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the preventive suspension of a judge and a court official implicated in a bribery scandal last week.

In a resolution, the court en banc initiated administrative proceedings against Judge Alberto Cansino and Officer in Charge/Acting Branch Clerk (OIC-BCC) of Court Mariejoy Lagman, both detailed at the Pasay City Regional Trial Court Branch 108, for allegedly accepting P6,000,000 from a litigant in exchange for a favorable judgment in a civil case.

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