Crisologo Abines was a Filipino politician. He was elected to three terms in the House of Representatives

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, representing the 2nd District of Cebu from 1987 to 1998. He served in the Eighth

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, Ninth

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 and Tenth Congresses

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.

After his service in Congress, Abines was tried along with three others for the 1999 murder of a soldier inside a cockpit

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 in Santander, Cebu

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. He was acquitted by the Sandiganbayan

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, though two of his co-accused were convicted.

During the 2007 elections

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, Abines served as the provincial chairman of the United Opposition

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 for Cebu. He also unsuccessfully sought re-election to his old congressional seat. He died of a myocardial infarction

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in January of the following year.