In 2003 Florencio Campomanes, former FIDE president and mastermind of the idea of 1992 Manila Olympiad was convicted of graft and sentenced in 2003 to serve one year and ten months in Manila jail. The court ruled that he failed to account for government funds of $ 238,745.00 entrusted to him to run the Olympiad hosted by the Cory Aquino regime.

In 2004 the anti-graft court reduced the sentence to a 6,000.00 Philippine pesos ($ 150.00) fine without imprisonment on compassionate grounds because of his advanced age (76). Campo did not accept the ruling of the lower court by appealing to the Supreme Court to clear his name of the allegations against him. The Supreme Court set aside both decision and resolutions of the anti-graft court and deemed it "unnecessary to rule on the other issue raised by both parties." In the Supreme Court decision promulgated on December 19,2006, the high court ruled that Campo, not being a public officer, had no criminal liability in the case.