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[Title] => Two sisters suspended over ill-gotten wealth charges
[Summary] => Two Bureau of Customs officers were suspended for six months yesterday by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo following charges that they had amassed ill-gotten wealth.
Matilda Concepcion-Millare and her sister Ana Marie Concepcion-Maglasang face administrative charges of dishonesty and grave misconduct as well as criminal charges for violating anti-graft laws.
They were immediately suspended, reportedly to prevent them from harassing potential witnesses and tampering with evidence.
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[Title] => Public works exec suspended
[Summary] => Another ranking official of the graft-ridden Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was suspended yesterday by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo over P57 million in alleged unexplained wealth.
Josefino Rigor, director of DPWH-National Capital Region, was suspended for six months without pay for grave misconduct, dishonesty and falsification of public documents.
Ernesto Nocos, spokesman for the Office of the Ombudsman, said there was "sufficient basis" to impose sanctions on Rigor, since the evidence against him points strongly to guilt.
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[Title] => BIR officer suspended for P31.9-M ill-gotten wealth
[Summary] => The chief revenue officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Balanga City was suspended yesterday for six months without pay after he failed to justify his ownership of property worth at least P31.9 million.
An investigation showed that Beltran Aquino Dy failed to declare in his statement of assets and liabilities (SAL) real estate property worth P24.7 million and eight vehicles worth P7.2 million.
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[Title] => Customs collector fired over missing P4.2M
[Summary] => A Bureau of Customs official was dismissed yesterday from the service after she failed to account for P4.2 million in duties and taxes.
Zenaida Sarmiento, an acting special collecting officer, was also charged with malversation of public funds before the Sandiganbayan and her benefits forfeited.
Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo said Sarmiento was found guilty of grave misconduct after being heard in an administrative proceeding.
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[Title] => Customs officer may lose assets
[Summary] => Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo ordered yesterday the filing of a civil case against a Bureau of Customs official suspected of acquiring ill-gotten wealth.
If found guilty, chief operation officer Manuel Valencia’s questionable assets will be confiscated by the government, said assistant ombudsman Ernesto Nocos, spokesman for the Office of the Ombudsman.
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[Title] => Cebu BIR exec sacked due to ‘unexplained wealth’
[Summary] => Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo dismissed from the government service yesterday a chief revenue officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Cebu City for failing to justify his P5.7-million "unexplained wealth."
The Ombudsman also forfeited the retirement benefits of Nieto Agad Racho and barred him from re-entering government service.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => BIR exec fakes birth record
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An officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Bacolod City was charged with falsification of public documents after the Ombudsman determined that he had forged his birth records to make it appear he was four years younger.
Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo approved yesterday the indictment of Godofredo San Jose of BIR District 77 in Bacolod.
Birth records obtained by the Ombudsman showed that San Jose was born on Feb. 2, 1934 in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.
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[Title] => At Customs, clerk drives Pajero, messenger has Civic
[Summary] => Two employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) — a messenger driving a Honda Civic and a senior clerk driving a Mitsubishi Pajero, among other vehicles — were suspended for six months without pay by the Ombudsman after they flunked the government’s lifestyle check.
Clerk Dolores Domingo and messenger Chito Orbeta were slapped with the preventive suspension following an initial investigation that indicated they acquired assets beyond their lawful income.
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[Title] => Ombudsman: Use text to fight corruption
[Summary] => Current technology such as the short messaging system (SMS) service favored by Filipino cellular phone users and interaction over the Internet will soon be used as tools for fighting graft and corruption.
The Office of the Ombudsman is set to adopt the strategy of weeding out undesirables from its ranks through text messaging — a strategy already used by other government agencies — and by creating a website.
The Ombudsman’s office aims to maximize the use of SMS to stamp out corruption in government, which is powered by some 1.2 million public servants.
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[Title] => BIR examiner who failed lifestyle check dismissed
[Summary] => The Office of the Ombudsman dismissed yesterday another public official from the service, this time an official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) who allegedly acquiring various properties he could not have bought with his "salary and other lawful income" alone.
Accountant-lawyer Arnel Bernardo, a BIR examiner, was found guilty by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo of dishonesty and grave misconduct after he failed to explain the source of the assets he acquired since joining the bureau in 1979.
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ERNESTO NOCOS
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[Title] => Two sisters suspended over ill-gotten wealth charges
[Summary] => Two Bureau of Customs officers were suspended for six months yesterday by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo following charges that they had amassed ill-gotten wealth.
Matilda Concepcion-Millare and her sister Ana Marie Concepcion-Maglasang face administrative charges of dishonesty and grave misconduct as well as criminal charges for violating anti-graft laws.
They were immediately suspended, reportedly to prevent them from harassing potential witnesses and tampering with evidence.
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[Title] => Public works exec suspended
[Summary] => Another ranking official of the graft-ridden Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was suspended yesterday by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo over P57 million in alleged unexplained wealth.
Josefino Rigor, director of DPWH-National Capital Region, was suspended for six months without pay for grave misconduct, dishonesty and falsification of public documents.
Ernesto Nocos, spokesman for the Office of the Ombudsman, said there was "sufficient basis" to impose sanctions on Rigor, since the evidence against him points strongly to guilt.
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[Title] => BIR officer suspended for P31.9-M ill-gotten wealth
[Summary] => The chief revenue officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Balanga City was suspended yesterday for six months without pay after he failed to justify his ownership of property worth at least P31.9 million.
An investigation showed that Beltran Aquino Dy failed to declare in his statement of assets and liabilities (SAL) real estate property worth P24.7 million and eight vehicles worth P7.2 million.
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[Title] => Customs collector fired over missing P4.2M
[Summary] => A Bureau of Customs official was dismissed yesterday from the service after she failed to account for P4.2 million in duties and taxes.
Zenaida Sarmiento, an acting special collecting officer, was also charged with malversation of public funds before the Sandiganbayan and her benefits forfeited.
Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo said Sarmiento was found guilty of grave misconduct after being heard in an administrative proceeding.
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[Title] => Customs officer may lose assets
[Summary] => Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo ordered yesterday the filing of a civil case against a Bureau of Customs official suspected of acquiring ill-gotten wealth.
If found guilty, chief operation officer Manuel Valencia’s questionable assets will be confiscated by the government, said assistant ombudsman Ernesto Nocos, spokesman for the Office of the Ombudsman.
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[Title] => Cebu BIR exec sacked due to ‘unexplained wealth’
[Summary] => Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo dismissed from the government service yesterday a chief revenue officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Cebu City for failing to justify his P5.7-million "unexplained wealth."
The Ombudsman also forfeited the retirement benefits of Nieto Agad Racho and barred him from re-entering government service.
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[Title] => BIR exec fakes birth record
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An officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Bacolod City was charged with falsification of public documents after the Ombudsman determined that he had forged his birth records to make it appear he was four years younger.
Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo approved yesterday the indictment of Godofredo San Jose of BIR District 77 in Bacolod.
Birth records obtained by the Ombudsman showed that San Jose was born on Feb. 2, 1934 in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.
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[Title] => At Customs, clerk drives Pajero, messenger has Civic
[Summary] => Two employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) — a messenger driving a Honda Civic and a senior clerk driving a Mitsubishi Pajero, among other vehicles — were suspended for six months without pay by the Ombudsman after they flunked the government’s lifestyle check.
Clerk Dolores Domingo and messenger Chito Orbeta were slapped with the preventive suspension following an initial investigation that indicated they acquired assets beyond their lawful income.
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[Title] => Ombudsman: Use text to fight corruption
[Summary] => Current technology such as the short messaging system (SMS) service favored by Filipino cellular phone users and interaction over the Internet will soon be used as tools for fighting graft and corruption.
The Office of the Ombudsman is set to adopt the strategy of weeding out undesirables from its ranks through text messaging — a strategy already used by other government agencies — and by creating a website.
The Ombudsman’s office aims to maximize the use of SMS to stamp out corruption in government, which is powered by some 1.2 million public servants.
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[Title] => BIR examiner who failed lifestyle check dismissed
[Summary] => The Office of the Ombudsman dismissed yesterday another public official from the service, this time an official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) who allegedly acquiring various properties he could not have bought with his "salary and other lawful income" alone.
Accountant-lawyer Arnel Bernardo, a BIR examiner, was found guilty by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo of dishonesty and grave misconduct after he failed to explain the source of the assets he acquired since joining the bureau in 1979.
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