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Sara, Iloilo mayor, 7 others, ordered charged before the Sandiganbayan
06 June 2011, source: Ombudsman Website

Acting Ombudsman Orlando C. Casimiro ordered the filing of criminal charges against Sara, Iloilo Mayor Neptali Salcedo and and seven other local officials before the Sandiganbayan.
          In a Resolution, Acting Ombudsman Casimiro ordered the filing of charges for 30 counts of Malversation of Public Funds through Falsification of Public Document against Neptali, Municipal Treasurer Edna Pacrim and Municipal Engineer Roel Salcedo, all of the Municipality of Sara in Iloilo province.
          The case stemmed from a complaint filed by Iloilo Congressman Niel Tupas, Jr., before the Office of the Ombudsman- Visayas (OMB-Visayas), alleging that labor payrolls amounting to a total of P1,834,400 were deemed to be of doubtful validity.
          Investigation conducted by OMB-Visayas revealed the “evident similarity in some of the signatures on the affidavits of the supposed payees”. It said the signature above names of different persons appear to have been “affixed by one person”.
          Aside from the filing of criminal charges, Pacrim, and Roel were also meted the penalty of dismissal with all inherent penalties.
          In another case, Acting Ombudsman Casimiro ordered that Neptali; Pacrim; Roel; Gregorio Golingay, Municipal Budget Officer; Calixto Oliveros, Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator and Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Chairman; Marcelino Abellar, Municipal General Services; Marilou Balasabas, Executive Assistant III and BAC member; and Elizabeth Tan, Statistical Aide and BAC Secretariat Head be charged for Violation of RA 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act).
          The case pertains to a complaint by Tupas based from an audit finding that contracts and/or Purchase Orders totaling P1,249,050 were awarded by the BAC to Porquez Farm and General Merchant.
          However, it was found out that the said company was not a bona fide supplier.
          The Resolution stated that “it was irregular for the BAC to award contracts to Porquez Farm and General Merchant wehen the latter could not be considered a bona fide supplier. Moreover, the corresponding disbursement vouchers for the payments made to Porquez Farm and General Merchant were not supported by the required documents, and the vouchers lacked several of the required signatures.”
          The Office also found Oliveros, Pacrim, Roel, Golingay, Abellar, Balasabas and Tan guilty of the offense of Inefficiency and Incompetence in the Performance of Official Duties, and were each meted the penalty of nine-month suspension without pay and benefits.

          In a separate resolution, Acting Ombudsman Casimiro ordered the filing of criminal charges for two counts each of violation of RA 3019 against Neptali, Pacrim and Roel.

           The case stemmed from a complaint also filed by Tupas which alleged that sometime in May 2006, Neptali, Pacrim and Roel connived with each other when they caused the payment of the amount P200,000 for the construction of a farm-to-market road from Barangay Domingo to Barangay Muyco, Sara, Iloilo and also the amount of P100,000 for the construction of another farm-to-market road from Sitio Kapinayan, Domingo to Sitio Sincua, Lemery, Sara, Iloilo.

           However, the complainant stated that the said project merely entailed repair works of an existing road and not construction of a new one.

           It was revealed that for the Kapinayan, Domingo-to-Sincua, Lemery project, the municipality of Sara paid an overpriced amount of P48,256 because repair works for the same was valued to be only P51,744.

           According to the Commission on Audit (COA), the local government of Sara also paid an excess amount of P96, 512 for the Domingo-to-Muyco project because it was valued to be only P103,488 which caused undue injury upon the municipality.

           The Office also found Pacrim and Roel guilty of the offense of Inefficiency and Incompetence in the Performance of Official Duties and meted the penalty of suspension for a period of nine months without pay and benefits for the ghost road project.

           In a separate case, Neptali; Pacrim; Roel; accountant Edgar Beatingo; and Luis Ybiernas, private individual; were ordered charged for one count each for Violation of the Anti-Graft law.

           In his complaint, Tupas alleged that the said respondents caused the payment of the amount of P1-M to Sara Caltex Station in Sara, Iloilo for fuel and lubricant used in several road repair and expansion.

           However, the COA discovered that there was an excess payment of P153,721 because the actual cost of the fuel was only P846, 279 for the ten projects.

           Pacrim, Roel and Beatingo were also slapped with a separate nine-month suspension without pay and benefits for the overpriced fuel.

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