Marcos appoints retired CA Justice Melchor Sadang as new PCGG chair

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. named retired Court of Appeals Associate Justice Melchor Sadang the new chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government — the government body created to locate his family’s alleged ill-gotten wealth.

The Presidential Communications Office posted on Facebook on Monday that Sadang had been appointed to the post.

Sadang was part of the five-man committee tasked to help clean the ranks of the Philippine National Police in 2023.

READ: Retired CA Justice joins five-man panel tasked to sort out PNP top brass

Sadang replaces John Agbayani at the commission.

The Palace also announced the following appointments:

• Commission on Higher Education

  • Ethel Valenzuela – commissioner

• Manila Economic and Cultural Office

  • Rose Marie J. Arenas – member, board of directors

• National Commission on Indigenous Peoples

  • Dahlialyn Dait-Cawed – director IV

• Philippine Racing Commission

  • Bienvenido Niles Jr. – member, representative of the Racehorse Owners Association

• Department of Agrarian Reform

  • Eric Arevalo – director III

  • Claire Aznar – provincial agrarian reform program officer I

• Department of Agriculture

  • Asis Perez – undersecretary

• Department of Foreign Affairs

  • Ella Mitra – foreign service officer, class I

• Department of Trade and Industry

  • Grace Baluyan – assistance aecretary

  • Raymond Panhon – director IV

• Intellectual Property Office

  • Nathaniel Arevalo – deputy director general

• Supreme Court, Legal Education Board

  • Jason Barlis – chair

  • Manuel Barrios – regular member, representing the Philippine Association of Law Professors

  • Voltaire San Pedro –  regular member, representing the Philippine Association of Law Schools

• Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development

  • Gregorio Montenegro, member of the Home Development Mutual Fund Board of Trustees, representing the Private Employees

• Department of Labor and Employment

  • Raymond Fel Sajor, director III

• Department of National Defense, Veterans Memorial Medical Center

  • Godwin Hernaez, chief of medical professional staff II

• Department of Tourism, Philippine Retirement Authority

  • Roberto Zozobrado, general manager, chief executive officer,  member of the Board of Trustees

• Department of Transportation

  • Jesus Nathaniel Martin Gonzales, undersecretary

• Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines

  • member, board of directors

    • Salma Angkaya-Kuhutan

    • Mohamad Dimaporo

    • Analiza Flores

    • Catherine Magana

    • Ma. Cristina Malab

    • Ronaldo Tepora

• Development Bank of the Philippines

  • Eduardo Saguil – member of the board of trustees

• Insurance Commission

  • Martin Yasay – deputy commissioner

• Social Security System

  • Eva Arcos – member representing the Workers’ Group, Social Security Commission