by Peter Tabingo | Oct 16, 2024 | National News, News
THE Sandiganbayan has reversed the November 29, 2022 decision of the Tacloban City Regional Trial Court branch 9 that convicted an engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and a private contractor on charges of violation of the Anti-Graft and...
by Peter Tabingo | Oct 16, 2024 | National News, News
THE Commission on Audit has ordered the Jaen Water District (JWD) to pay Primewater Infrastructure Corp’s claim of unpaid shares in the collections at the start of their Joint Venture Agreement in 2017 totaling P24.2 million. In an en banc ruling released...
by Peter Tabingo | Oct 15, 2024 | National News, News
OMBUDSMAN Samuel Martires yesterday said the dismissal of the administrative case against former Health Secretary Francisco Duque III will not affect the graft case filed against him and former Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM)...
by Peter Tabingo | Oct 15, 2024 | National News, News
THE Commission on Audit has affirmed its 2019 decision that upheld 14 notices of disallowance (NDs) issued against salary increases and various allowances totaling P264,404,571.22 paid to officials and employees of the Philippine Guarantee Corp (Philguarantee,...
by Peter Tabingo | Oct 14, 2024 | National News, News
AN officer of a private foundation established by businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles is facing 29 to 39 years imprisonment for defrauding government in relation to the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam. The Sandiganbayan Seventh Division convicted accused...