NBI files charges over Canada trash case‍‍‍

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed graft charges against officials and personnel of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) over the shipment of 103 container vans of garbage from Canada in 2013. Implicated in the graft case were: former EMB director Juan Miguel Cuna; EMB personnel ‍Irvin Cadavona, Geri Geronimo Sanez and Renato Cruz; and BOC personnel Benjamin Perez Jr., Eufracio Ednaco, Matilda Bacongan and Jose Saromo. —Nikka G. Valenzuela