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                    [Title] => Former Comelec official acquitted of graft
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The Sandiganbayan yesterday acquitted a former election official of graft for lack of sufficient evidence.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322639 [Title] => Lozano pinakukumpiska ang ari-arian ng Comelec officials [Summary] => Hiniling kahapon ni Atty. Oliver Lozano sa Korte Suprema na ipakulong at kumpiskahin ang mga ari-arian ng mga Comelec Commissioners na nasangkot sa maanomalyang pagbili ng mga counting machines.

Sinabi ni Atty. Lozano sa kanyang liham sa SC, dapat ilitin ang ari-arian at bank accounts ng mga Comelec officials na sina Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos, Luzviminda Tancangco, Ralph Lantion, Melhor Sadain, Ressureccion Borra, Rufino Javier at Florentino Tuason Jr.

Wika pa ni Lozano, dapat isailalim sa public auction ang makukumpiskang mga ari-arian ng mga ito.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289315 [Title] => Joker to House: Buckle down to work on impeachment [Summary] => Sen. Joker Arroyo called on opposition congressmen yesterday to firm up the impeachment case against President Arroyo and focus their efforts on gathering the remaining 37 signatures needed to automatically transmit the complaint to the Senate.

Arroyo said the President is relying on her allies at the House of Representatives as her "first and only line of defense." In contrast, in the impeachment case against former President Joseph Estrada, he had relied on his allies in the Senate.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284518 [Title] => Tancangco posts bail before arrest warrant served [Summary] => Even before a warrant for her arrest was served, former election commissioner Luzviminda Tancangco posted bail before the Sandiganbayan yesterday on charges of graft.

Tancangco, the former chairwoman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s bidding committee, was charged by the Ombudsman with approving a P6.5-billion voters’ identification card system in 2000 amid financial constraints by the poll body.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283506 [Title] => Tancangco faces graft raps over voters’ ID [Summary] => A retired official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was indicted on graft charges before the Sandiganbayan yesterday for allegedly approving the proposed P6.5-billion voters’ identification system in 2000 despite the shortage of government funds.

Former commissioner Luzviminda Tancangco, who used to head the poll body’s bidding committee, was held liable by Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo for "giving unwarranted benefits" to Photokina Marketing Corp., the private firm tasked with printing the voters’ ID cards.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237467 [Title] => Comelec has ‘vested interests,’ former official says [Summary] => Newly retired Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Luzviminda Tancangco said yesterday she does not expect clean, honest and orderly elections in May unless "vested interests" in the poll body are eradicated early.

Tancangco, along with fellow commissioner Ralph Lantion, completed her seven-year term with the Comelec yesterday and Malacañang is expected to announce their replacements shortly.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237302 [Title] => EDITORIAL - The right choices for the Comelec [Summary] => After the poll automation fiasco and other disasters involving Philippine electoral exercises, the nation now has an idea of how important it is to appoint the right people to the Commission on Elections. [DatePublished] => 2004-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236039 [Title] => Graft vs Comelec officials isinampa ni Pimentel [Summary] => Kinasuhan ng katiwalian sa Ombudsman ni Sen. Aqulino Pimentel si Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos at anim na commisisoners nito matapos ibasura ng Supreme Court ang pinasok nilang kontrata sa Mega Pacific Consortium na nagkakahalaga ng P1.3 bilyon.

Ayon kay Sen. Pimentel, lumabag si Chairman Abalos at mga commissioners na sina Luzviminda Tancangco, Ralph Lantion, Mehol Sedain, Resureccion Borra, Rufino Javier at Florentino Tuason sa Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act o Republic Act No.3019.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 164184 [Title] => EDITORIAL - New man at the Comelec [Summary] => In a month the elections for the Sangguniang Kabataan will be held. We can write off that electoral exercise as a disaster and a waste of taxpayers’ money. The registration was dismal, and youths themselves appear uninterested in the elections. Worst of all, the Commission on Elections... [DatePublished] => 2002-06-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 164213 [Title] => ‘Time to sleep, take a break’ [Summary] => After being bypassed seven times by the Commission on Appointments (CA) and months spent feuding with colleagues, Alfredo Benipayo is ready to bid the Commission on Elections (Comelec) goodbye.

"I will sleep. I’ll take a good vacation, a break from all of these," Benipayo told his staff at the Comelec after receiving official word that President Arroyo had appointed a replacement for him.

"I feel all right," Benipayo told reporters. "In a sense, I feel relieved. I wish the new chairman luck in the days ahead."
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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