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Ombudsman wins graft case vs. former PAFCA prexy
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Ombudsman wins graft case vs. former PAFCA prexy
10 October 2012

      The Office of the Ombudsman won the graft case filed against Errol B. Perez, former president of the Philippine Air Force College of Aeronautics (PAFCA), arising from the alleged unlawful reimbursement of meal expenses in 1991.

      In a 27-page decision penned by Associate Justice Alexander Gesmundo and concurred in by Associate Justices Roland Jurado and Alex Quiroz, the anti-graft court’s Sandiganbayan Fifth Division found Perez guilty of violating Section 3(e) of Republic Act (RA) No. 3019 and meted him an indeterminate penalty of 6 years and 1 month as minimum to 10 years as maximum.

      Perez, former president of PAFCA, now the Philippine State College of Aeronautics (PhilSCA), was also sentenced to suffer perpetual disqualification from public office, and was ordered to pay the government the amount of P240,000 as actual damages.

      In a separate case, Perez was found guilty of violation of Article 218 of the Revised Penal Code (Failure to Render accounts) for the sum of P65,000. The said amount was released to Perez for a conference in Singapore, which did not materialize.

      An indeterminate prison term of 4 months and one day of arresto mayor as minimum to 1 year, 1 month and 11 days of prision correccional as maximum was meted upon Perez for the second crime.

      The filing of the complaint against Perez was made possible owing to a special investigation conducted by the Commission on Audit (COA) in response to the request of then Education Secretary Isidro Cariño.

      State auditors found that there were disparities between the amounts reimbursed from the actual amounts in the official receipts paid.

      It was also revealed that the reimbursements consisted of 21 receipts from six different first-class restaurants and five star hotels where the amounts were padded in a total of P240,000 by intercalating a number on the left side of the paid amount to make it bigger.

      A receipt issued by the Fisherman’s Village of P2,910.60 became P12,910.60, while that of East Ocean Seafood Restaurant receipt for P671.50 became P19,671.50.

      State Auditor Joana Roda Aca-ac testified that she personally verified with all the restaurants the real amount billed on the padded receipts.

      Ombudsman Prosecutors were able to prove that these fraudulent receipts were padded by a low of P1,200 to a high of P20,000.

       â€œThere is no doubt in the Court’s mind that it was the accused himself who approved and received the proceeds of the Disbursement Vouchers covering the various falsified receipts,” the ruling stated.

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