by Cebu Daily News
A COLLECTOR of the Talisay City Treasurer's Office was meted a six-month suspension without pay for allegedly falsifying an official receipt five years ago.
The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas found Rey Lumapas guilty of less serious dishonesty.
Anti-graft officer Euphemia Bacalso found sufficient evidence to hold Lumapas liable of an administrative offense.
“Respondent's defense of honest mistake is belied by documentary and testimonial evidence as well as its being contrary to ordinary human experience,†Bacalso said in her decision.
The case stemmed from a complaint filed by Dominga Geraldez who went to the Office of the Treasurer of Talisay City to pay for her professional tax as an underwriter licensee.
After paying P250 to Lumapas, an official receipt was issued to her.
However, she noticed that a “brown cardboard†has been placed underneath the carbonized official receipt.
Gerladez said the official receipt given to her didn’t indicate the amount she paid which was P250, spelled out in words. She also said Lumapas didn't sign it.
She later learned, through the assistance of then Talisay City councilor Alan Bucao, a duplicate of the official receipt issued to her.
The duplicate official receipt from the City Treasurer's Office showed that Geraldez wasn't the payee in the transaction but a certain Eduardo Coronado who paid P10 for a police clearance.
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