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A FORMER ranking executive of the National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor) has failed to persuade the Sandiganbayan to reverse its February 23, 2024 decision convicting her of one count of graft punishable by six to eight years imprisonment with perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
THE Commission on Audit (COA) has granted the appeal of the catering company hired by the Bureau of Corrections (Bucor) to provide meals for prisoners at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) and the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW), lifting the Notice of Disallowance earlier issued against the P115.84 million contract.
FIVE former officials of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC now DOTr) and a private businessman were convicted of graft by the Sandiganbayan over the anomalous procurement of mobile phones for P5.96 million in 2005.
THE Commission on Audit (COA) has thrown out the petition for review filed by officials of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) seeking the lifting of Notices of Disallowances (NDs) issued on March 8, 2021 against the grant of cash assistance to non-permanent personnel totaling P400,000 and health assistance to agency officials and employees totaling P476,896.87.
CATANDUANES Gov. Joseph Cua and five other provincial government officials have failed to persuade the Commission on Audit to lift the Notice of Disallowance (ND) issued against the P14.8 million expenditure on intelligence and confidential activities in 2012 and 2013.
GOVERNMENT auditors have called out officials of Ligao City in Albay over the lack of covered parking space to protect its fleet of service vehicles and heavy equipment from the elements.
THE widow of a soldier who died in the line of duty on November 8, 1971 had to wait 52 long years to collect the pension benefits due to her late husband’s service spanning more than 10 years.
THE Sandiganbayan has dismissed a graft case against two former top executives of the Land Bank of the Philippines involving the alleged anomalous sale of 46,596,596 shares of stock in Meralco in 2008.