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December 17, 2025 | 4:06pm
Controversial government contractor Sarah Discaya answers senators' questions at the Blue Ribbon Committee hearing into anomalous infrastructure projects on Sept. 8, 2025.
Senate SMU / Wendell D. Alinea
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court said the case involving contractor Sarah Discaya over an alleged ghost project in Davao Occidental has been transferred to a court in Cebu.
Supreme Court Spokesperson Camille Ting said the two complaints against Discaya and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers from Davao Occidental were transferred to a Regional Trial Court in Lapu-Lapu City.
"The determination of the nearest judicial region shall be made by the presiding or executive judge concerned," Ting said in a statement.
Ting said the transfer was in accordance with Supreme Court guidelines “directing that corruption-related cases arising from infrastructure projects be forwarded to the nearest designated anti-graft court of the nearest judicial region.”
This means that any warrant of arrest issued against Discaya or her co-accused would come from the Regional Trial Court in Lapu-Lapu City.
On November 15, the Supreme Court announced that it had designated Regional Trial Courts to serve as special courts for handling anti-graft cases.
The case involves an alleged P96.5 billion ghost project related to a revetment in Barangay Culaman, Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental.
The project was awarded in January 2022 to St. Timothy Construction Corp., a company owned by Discaya.
