Seventeen former officials and employees of the Department of (DoF) Finance are facing criminal charges before the Sandiganbayan for granting P200 million worth of tax credits to a ghost company and its purported suppliers in the 1990s.
Thirteen officials and employees of the Department of Finance were ordered dismissed by the Office of the Ombudsman on Friday after it found them guilty of defrauding the government of P82 million in staging the so-called tax-credit scam in the 1990s.
A key witness in the government’s tax credit scam cases is hoping that the Ombudsman would review how these are being handled, after he himself was implicated in a similar controversy despite having an immunity agreement with the government.
A witness in several tax credit scam cases has protested the Office of the Ombudsman’s recent filing of graft charges against him in connection with another case for the questionable transfer of tax credit certificates (TCC), saying that the same office had granted him immunity from prosecution. Ernesto Hiansen, who used to head the One-Stop [...]
