MANILA, Philippines?An employee of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) was charged yesterday in a Manila regional trial court with falsification of public documents after she allegedly tampered with her time card 11 years ago.

Graft Investigation and Prosecution Officer I Leah Tiozon-Fortuna of the Office of the Ombudsman found probable cause to file the charge against Carol Isabelle Lopez, a former assistant at the PRC.

Lopez allegedly punched her time card at 7:37 in the evening and made it appear that she arrived at the office at 7:37 in the morning of April 13, 1999.

She was also accused of the same offense in two other instances on July 19, 1998, and on March 10, 1999.

In both incidents, Lopez punched the time card in the evening and allegedly made it appear that she had gone to the office on time in the morning.

?The distinguishing mark between the time punched in the morning and the time punched in the evening is that the numbers impressed on the morning entries are slightly bigger than the numbers impressed on the afternoon entries and that the afternoon entries are underscored while the morning entries are not,? Fortuna pointed out in her resolution.

The graft investigator, however, indicted Lopez only for the April 13, 1999 incident.