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DPWH-NCR Director ordered dismissed from the service for untruthful statements in his SALN
22 July 2011, source: Ombudsman Website

ACTING OMBUDSMAN ORLANDO CASIMIRO dismissed from the service a Regional Director of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for making untruthful statements in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth (SALN).
          Ordered dismissed from the service was Josefino N. Rigor, Director of the DPWH - National Capital Region (DPWH-NCR), after he was adjudged administratively liable for SERIOUS DISHONESTY and FALSIFICATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMETNS.
          The Acting Ombudsman acted on the Motion for Reconsideration filed by intervenor Sec. Rogelio L. Singson representing the DPWH, thru the Office of the Solicitor General.
          It will be recalled that in an Order dated 29 April 2011, Rigor was adjudged guilty of simple negligence and fined P1,000 stemming from misrepresentations in the declarations contained in his SALN.
          The Ombudsman resolved that the DPWH has the legal interest in the matter anchored on the right of the Department to select honest and trustworthy employees in order to preserve its integrity.  The DPWH is entitled to intervene as the subject matter is of such direct and immediate character that the intervenor will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment.
          The Acting Ombudsman found Rigor to have committed dishonesty for his deliberate and willful non-disclosure of properties registered in the name of his wife, Anastacia Corpus.  Rigor indeed failed to disclose in his SALNs for 1999-2002, the properties of Anastacia including his business interests in two corporations: Kontrata Construction and Development Corporation and Disneyland Bus Line, Inc.
           Additionally, it was ascertained in the investigation that the SALNs submitted by Rigor for 1972-1998 were reconstituted by Rigor and made it appear that these were the same SALNs that he executed from 1972 to 1998 when the truth is there are two different versions of the 29 SALNs. Moreover, these SALNs for 1972-1998 do not bear markings that they were officially received by the Department. The 1981-1998 SALNs are likewise not subscribed as required by law.
          Acting Ombudsman Casimiro said, “From the foregoing, it can be deduced that there was malice or willful intention on the part of Josefino Rigor to commit a dishonest act when he surreptitiously reconstructed his old SALNs and misrepresented these reconstructed documents as copies of then existing in the DPWH official records.”
          The Office of the Ombudsman directed the DPWH to immediately implement the decision.

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