The Commission on Audit (COA) will soon require all its employees to file detailed conflict-of-interest declarations, part of a series of reforms following anomalies uncovered in the country 's flood control and infrastructure projects. COA Chairperson Gamaliel Cordoba said this on Monday,...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has affirmed with finality the P64.9 million refund to be paid by the Philippine Army (PA) to JROG Marketing for the excessive charge of liquidated damages imposed on the delay in the delivery of equipment. It denied the motion for reconsideration filed by the PA which...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has denied for lack of jurisdiction and merit the P2.1 million money claim of Pitney Bowes Software Pte. Ltd. against the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). On July 4, 2012, the DPWH entered into a contract agreement with Pitney Bowes for the provision of...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has affirmed its notice of disallowance (ND) on the P4 million paid by the province of Iloilo for "excessive" electricity consumption from December 2009 to April 2010. However, the COA granted the petitions of two provincial officials to exdlude them from liability in...
Twenty former employees of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) or Veterans Golf Club (VGC) have been ordered paid by the Commission on Audit (COA) a total of P3.69 million for their accumulated vacation and sick leaves from 2004 to 2011. While 48 members of VMMC/VGC filed their petitions...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has directed Oroquieta City in Misamis Occidental to pay Limar's Medical Supplies Trading P245,917.50 for the medicines and vaccines the city government purchased in 2020. Limar's Trading, through its proprietor John-jay S. Ramil, filed a petition for money claim...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has ordered the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) to pay Filmetrics Corporation P47.2 million for the delivery and set up of the Biometric Data Service Facility (BDSF) in 2010. Filmetrics filed a petition for money claim against PhilPost due to the reported...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has granted the P1.4 million in pension differentials claimed by the widow of a deceased officer of the then Integrated National Police (INP), now Philippine National Police (PNP). Danilo M. Garlitos was appointed patrolman in the INP on Sept. 15, 1974. He went through...
Panfilo "Ping" Lacson (MANILA BULLETIN) True to his anti-corruption stance, senatorial candidate Panfilo "Ping" Lacson is calling for the Commission on Audit (COA) to be given the power to initiate investigations and file cases against those...
A House panel on Monday, March 17, called on the Commission on Audit (COA) to conduct a fraud audit on the questionable use of P6.4 billion worth of government funds by the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (BARMM). This came as officials from the region failed to attend a House...
Former Silang Mayor Kevin A. Anarna (Photo from Atty. Kevin Amutan Anarna's Facebook page/MANILA BULLETIN) CAVITE – The Commission on Audit (COA) has granted the appeal of former Silang Mayor Kevin A. Anarna, lifting the ₱1.38 billion disallowance initially issued over unsubmitted...
Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The Commission on Audit’s (COA) latest findings on P12.3 billion in alleged unsettled financial transactions at the Department of Education (DepEd)...
