A former barangay official in Iloilo was sentenced to more than two years of imprisonment for falsifying driver’s licenses, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) said on Wednesday, July 31.
Aside from imprisonment, LTO chief Assistant Secretary Vigor D. Mendoza II said Mary Jane B. Bama was also ordered by an Iloilo municipal trial court to pay P5,000 penalty for of five counts of falsification by a private individual under Article 172, Paragraph 1 in relation to Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code.
The cases stemmed from the operation against people involved in falsifying driver’s license wherein Bama was arrested.
Mendoza said the penalties given to Bama should serve as a strong message to all people engaged in illegal activities using the LTO that the agency is now fighting back to ensure that no clients would be duped.