The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has ordered a six-month preventive suspension of Cebu City Mayor Michael L. Rama and seven other local officials for their involvement in the non-payment of salaries of four city employees since July 2023. Also oOrdered suspended without pay were City Administrator...
Graft charges have been filed before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) against Bulacan Gov. Daniel R. Fernando, Vice-Gov. Alex Castro, other provincial officials and private individuals for alleged irregularities in the contract for the Bulacan Flood Control and River Restoration Project. The...
CEBU CITY – Criminal charges were filed against the mayor of Mandaue City, Cebu for allegedly approving the cutting of mangroves in one of the barangays in the city. CHARGES were filed against Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes and two other city officials for the cutting of mangrove trees in...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas has been asked to probe Mayor Cresente Chavez Jr. of Jordan town, Guimaras province over the alleged illegal passage of a resolution with a P9.9-million funding. CHAVEZ (Jordan LGU) A resident of the municipality wrote a letter of...
TACLOBAN CITY – Suspended Mayor Jose Arturo Suan of Allen, Northern Samar returned to work after more than three months following the recent dismissal by the Office of Ombudsman of the charges of grave abuse of authority or oppression filed against him. SUAN (Contributed photo) The case stemmed...
Ten remaining graft charges against Masbate Gov. Antonio T. Kho and other provincial officials have been withdrawn by the complainant in an affidavit of desistance after the first five charges had been dismissed outright by the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB). In his affidavit, Ruben D. Fuentes, a...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday, May 1 announced that it will investigate former Surigao del Sur Representative Prospero Pichay, Jr. over alleged material misrepresentation in his certificate of candidacy (COC) in the last May 2022 elections. In a statement, the...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has approved the filing of graft charges before the Sandiganbayan against two former Department of Agriculture (DA) officials over the alleged anomalous 2018 contract for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources' (BFAR) Integrated Marine Environment Monitoring...
The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal of National Director Demosthenes R. Escoto of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for grave misconduct over the purchases of transmitters and transceivers in 2018. The penalty of dismissal also carries with it the cancellation...
The Sandiganbayan has approved the payment of P2.5 million to settle the P9.06 million civil case for forfeiture of alleged unexplained wealth filed against the former director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Benguet and members of his family. Former PNP Chief Supt. Eugene Garbriel...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion to dismiss the graft charges filed against former mayor Teddy C. Tumang of Mexico town in Pampanga and six other accused despite their insistence that their right to speedy disposition of cases had been violated. Tumang, former Municipal Planning and...
ILOILO CITY – Mayor Receliste Escolin of President Roxas, Capiz has filed a motion to stop the Office of the Ombudsman from implementing his three-month suspension. ESCOLIN (DA-6) Escolin has submitted an Omnibus Motion for Reconsideration with prayer to hold in abeyance the Ombudsman’s...
