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By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

Investigators from the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) uncover the presence of "fixers" victimizing pensioners here.

This was bared yesterday by Vicente Gavantes and Eduardo Leyson, special investigators of the PVAO legal and pensions division who were sent here by Defense Undersecretary Ernesto Carolina amid complaints that a syndicate of fixers allegedly facilitate the release of pension claims.

Gavantes confirmed there are fixers who monitor pension releases of veterans and their beneficiaries.

He said that based on initial interviews with pensioners and a cashier at one of PVAOs remittance bank here, the suspected fixers accompany pensioners or their claimants at the bank.