..... De Lima pointed out that allowing the Arroyos to travel abroad would render the investigative and prosecutorial jurisdiction of the DoJ useless, and that it would also render any judgment in the petitions they filed before the SC moot and academic.

“With petitioner’s travel abroad, any eventual decision on the petition would not bring back petitioner to the Philippines. No amount of judgment of the Honorable Court will recompense the Philippine State the irreparable injury caused to it with the flight from Philippine jurisdiction of Madam Gloria Arroyo