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                    [Summary] => The Ombudsman filed estafa and falsification charges yesterday against 21 officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and nine of the department’s suppliers in connection with the P38.8-million vehicle repair scam.


Prosecutors led by acting deputy special prosecutor Humphrey Monteroso recommended bail bonds of P40,000 for each of the accused DPWH officials led by motor pool chief Maximo Borje, who had just been cleared of plunder charges.
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[DatePublished] => 2002-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1297981 [AuthorName] => Efren Danao [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166295 [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.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166175 [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 anomaly, involving a car with license plate PAK 404, was uncovered in the course of the six-month probe ordered by Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong.

Repair on another car, with license plate PGG 946, reportedly cost the DPWH another P500,000. The vehicle spent the entire 2001 going in and out of a contractor’s repair shop.
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                    [Summary] => The Ombudsman filed estafa and falsification charges yesterday against 21 officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and nine of the department’s suppliers in connection with the P38.8-million vehicle repair scam.


Prosecutors led by acting deputy special prosecutor Humphrey Monteroso recommended bail bonds of P40,000 for each of the accused DPWH officials led by motor pool chief Maximo Borje, who had just been cleared of plunder charges.
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"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.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166175 [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 anomaly, involving a car with license plate PAK 404, was uncovered in the course of the six-month probe ordered by Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong.

Repair on another car, with license plate PGG 946, reportedly cost the DPWH another P500,000. The vehicle spent the entire 2001 going in and out of a contractor’s repair shop.
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