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The dismissal of 13 officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways was ordered yesterday by outgoing DPWH Secretary Simeon Datumanong.


The order marked the conclusion of the department’s investigation into a vehicle repair scam involving P182 million. 


The scam was exposed in 2001 and entailed fund disbursements for exorbitant, repetitive and "ghost" repairs of some 500 vehicles in the DPWH motor pool. It was said to have started in 1999.


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                    [Title] => 31 DPWH men face vehicle repair raps
                    [Summary] => Thirty-one officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways will be slapped with administrative charges this week for embezzling P150 million in government funds, according to a DPWH source.


That is on top of criminal charges that may likely be filed by the Office of the Ombudsman, which investigates and prosecutes cases of government corruption.


"We will leave it to the Ombudsman to act on the criminal cases of those involved," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.


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                    [Title] => DPWH personnel linked to scam vow innocence
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Some of the 41 officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) relieved over the weekend in the wake of the P150-million vehicle repair scam said they simply did their jobs by signing the dubious vouchers and that they never benefited from the anomalous car repair deals.


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                    [Title] => 41 DPWH men in scam relieved
                    [Summary] => Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong has relieved 41 department officials and employees implicated in the P150-million vehicle repair scam, including three members of the panel that investigated the anomaly.


In an order released yesterday, Datumanong said the relieved personnel, who are all based at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s central office in Manila, were found "to have either benefited from a reimbursement scheme or failed to perform their duty in preventing such irregularity."


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                    [Title] => DPWH submits initial report on P150-M vehicle repair scam
                    [Summary] => Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong vowed yesterday to push to the hilt his purge of the agency and ensure that the perpetrators are criminally prosecuted.


"This would not be a flash-in-the-pan. This would be a continuing effort," Datumanong said.


A source at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said he has forwarded an initial report of a five-member probe panel created to look into the P150-million vehicle repair scam.


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                    [Title] => Motorpool chief on leave in US
                    [Summary] => A chief automotive mechanic of the graft-laden Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has absconded with some P50 million largely mustered from voucher padding.


DPWH Secretary Simeon Datumanong also revealed that at least 44 officials of the agency were involved in the multimillion-peso scandal involving repair of service vehicles and equipment.


Datumanong said 11 of those being eyed for complicity in the anomaly were "in too deep," while two others were members themselves of a fact-finding panel he formed to conduct the investigation.


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The order marked the conclusion of the department’s investigation into a vehicle repair scam involving P182 million. 


The scam was exposed in 2001 and entailed fund disbursements for exorbitant, repetitive and "ghost" repairs of some 500 vehicles in the DPWH motor pool. It was said to have started in 1999.


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That is on top of criminal charges that may likely be filed by the Office of the Ombudsman, which investigates and prosecutes cases of government corruption.


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In an order released yesterday, Datumanong said the relieved personnel, who are all based at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s central office in Manila, were found "to have either benefited from a reimbursement scheme or failed to perform their duty in preventing such irregularity."


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"This would not be a flash-in-the-pan. This would be a continuing effort," Datumanong said.


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DPWH Secretary Simeon Datumanong also revealed that at least 44 officials of the agency were involved in the multimillion-peso scandal involving repair of service vehicles and equipment.


Datumanong said 11 of those being eyed for complicity in the anomaly were "in too deep," while two others were members themselves of a fact-finding panel he formed to conduct the investigation.


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13 in DPWH vehicle scam sacked

By Jose Aravilla | January 9, 2003 - 12:00am

Heads are rolling. The dismissal of 13 officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways was ordered yesterday by outgoing DPWH Secretary Simeon Datumanong. The order marked the conclusion...

Headlines

31 DPWH men face vehicle repair raps

By Jose Aravilla | August 5, 2002 - 12:00am

Thirty-one officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways will be slapped with administrative charges this week for embezzling P150 million in government funds, according to a DPWH source. That...

Headlines

DPWH personnel linked to scam vow innocence

By Jose Aravilla | July 8, 2002 - 12:00am

What scam? Some of the 41 officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) relieved over the weekend in the wake of the P150-million vehicle repair scam said they simply did their jobs...

Headlines

41 DPWH men in scam relieved

By Jose Aravilla | July 6, 2002 - 12:00am

Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong has relieved 41 department officials and employees implicated in the P150-million vehicle repair scam, including three members of the panel that investigated...

Headlines

DPWH submits initial report on P150-M vehicle repair scam

By Jose Aravilla | June 28, 2002 - 12:00am

Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong vowed yesterday to push to the hilt his purge of the agency and ensure that the perpetrators are criminally prosecuted. "This would not be a flash-in-the-pan....

Headlines

Motorpool chief on leave in US

By Jose Aravilla | June 27, 2002 - 12:00am

A chief automotive mechanic of the graft-laden Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has absconded with some P50 million largely mustered from voucher padding. DPWH Secretary Simeon Datumanong also revealed...

Headlines