By the Bohol Chronicle
The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office will hear the complaint for illegal extraction of manganese against Candijay Mayor Sergio Amora Jr. and eight others on Thursday.
Amora was charged with theft of manganese with an estimated amount of P1 million for mining the mineral in an area claimed by Cebu-based Hench Mining Services Development Corporation.
Also named respondents in the complaint filed by Domingo Chua of Hench Mining were Sofronio Simacio, Cecilio Melecio, Nestor Romero, Rommel Santos, Emilio Santos, Ronald Reyes, Rob Langden Harwood and Teodoro Casimsiman.
Hench Mining claimed the area encroached by the mining activity of respondent Simacio and in fact applied a Mineral Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) at the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) regional office which had been submitted by Chua.
Chua reported the illegal mining operations of Simacio to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Bohol field office on August 5, 2008 after receiving information of the latter’s activities at the site covered by his company’s mining claim.
The NBI found at the mined out site traces of manganese extraction, a backhoe excavator and approximately 7,000 stockpiled sacks of fine manganese materials, weighing approximately 275 metric tons.
Some 116 laborers were also seen extracting manganese ore in the said area that were allegedly supervised by a casual employee of the municipality of Anda under the orders of Mayor Paulino Amper.
The raiding team also discovered several sacks of manganese being loaded into two dump trucks allegedly ready for delivery to a stock yard in Sitio Basdacu, Candabong, Anda.
Mayor Amora was later identified by the two drivers as the owner of the trucks. The NBI team personally turned over the vehicles to the Anda PNP for custody.
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