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By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Virginia Torres, chief of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), and 25 other LTO and police personnel are facing criminal and administrative charges for allegedly facilitating the registration of stolen vehicles, the Philippine Daily Inquirer has learned.

A Feb. 2 report prepared by Chief Supt. Leonardo A. Espina, head of the Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG), showed that a criminal complaint was filed in the Department of Justice on May 7, 2009, against Torres in connection with the illegal registration of a Mitsubishi Pajero while she was the LTO head in Tarlac City.

The charge against Torres, a shooting range buddy of President Benigno Aquino III who appointed her LTO chief in July last year, was for violation of Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code for falsification of a document by a public officer, according to the Espina report to PNP Director General Raul Bacalzo.

The Inquirer secured a copy of the Espina report on Thursday. Phone calls to Torres on Sunday by the Inquirer were not returned although she released a statement earlier saying that the allegations against her were part of a “demolition job.”

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