The Office of the Ombudsman has spared former military budget officer and retired Col. George Rabusa from facing plunder and graft charges alongside fellow military officials whom he earlier implicated in the multi-million “pabaon” (retirement cash gifts) funds conversion scam in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Monday gave the green light to pursue the graft case against retired Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Jesus Verzosa and seven others before the Sandiganbayan in connection with the questionable purchase of 75 defective police rubber boats in 2008.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has indicted for graft and suspended for one year without pay three regional officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in connection with the questionable disapproval of the survey plans of some lot owners to give way to the foreshore lease application of another company in 2007.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales is cracking the whip on her own employees.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales has approved the formal investigation of Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia and six Capitol officials for allegedly giving undue advantage to a private contractor for undertaking extra work to complete the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC). The CICC in Mandaue City was built at a cost of over P800 million to be used as [...]
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has ordered the filing of graft charges against Tubay, Agusan del Norte Mayor Sadeka Tomaneng and another town official in connection with the demolition of houses of people who refused to heed the mayor’s alleged demand for them to recant their affidavits on a labor case.
The Ombudsman has affirmed its decision to charge with plunder the alleged auditor and coaccused of former President Joseph Estrada for gambling payoffs during his presidency.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has relaxed the rules on public access to the statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) of government officials on file in the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB).
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Thursday challenged the private sector from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) member-economies to help curb bribery and fraud in their enterprise in order to attain a corruption-free business climate in the region.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Monday has eased the rules on the public’s access to Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALNs).
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Wednesday ordered Zamboanga del Sur Representative Aurora Cerilles charged with graft before the Sandiganbayan for the allegedly irregular purchase of medical supplies in 2001, when she was the province’s governor.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday said it is willing to cooperate with the Office of the Ombudsman’s probe into the “ghost repairs” of 28 light armored vehicles that cost the government more than P400 million in 2007.
With the appointment of former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as Ombudsman in 2011, President Benigno Aquino III said the country would have an “honest-to-goodness anti-corruption office.”
