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ss Insight
Thursday, May 23,2Ot9

CA affirms dismissal of DSWD

exec in P8M pork barrel anomaly
BY ASIIZEL IIAGHENO and.conduct prejudicial to lhe best interest
ot than^P8 million for the implementatioo
THE.Co^urt,of Appeals has affirmed the
publrc service.
tne.Lomprehensive lnregrared Delivery
of
mrssat of a former of6cia.l of the
dis_ The appellate court said the Ombudsman
did
of
Department socral Services ptogram with the DSD0b
not er! in its decision. as
of Social Welfare and Development'involveJ rmPtementrng agency.
Aside from Cabrera, the Ombudsman
rn,an adtruflstrative case over the
._The P8 million was rhen released Lo rhe
a.lso
alleged i.lle_ ordercd-the dismissal from service of
gal drsbursemenr of pg mi.llion from two K^aloocan Assisrance Council, tr..
tle pork otherDSWD officials involved in the anomaly fX,CiD;
of euezon City Rep. Vincent non governrnenr orqanizatioh. "
.oarrel,allocaci_on
DrngDong ' (_nsologo. - Undersecretary Mareo Montarjo and former
Bu_t rhe
Ombudsman initiared a probe after
nssrsrant l)tector pacira Sfuino) . .
In a decisioo.telea-sed last Monday, the ap_ Lle Natio-nal Children's Hospiral anested
-
petlate courr upheid Lhe 201? decisi6n .,The CA a-lso dismissed the peritions of tree medtcal or denral mission was
*rat no
of the ruonunoand Sarino seeking a reversal of the conducred
Ombudsman dismissing former DSWD n^Orrober 2009. conuary to the claim of rhe
assis_ Umbudsmao,s order in the ru.ling issued
Vi.lma cabrera who was found in N(;.)
11,,-::."t.rury
guxty ot grave misconduct, serious June rast year.
dishonesty Court records showed thar Crisologo later found thar rhe NGO
^.In-vestigarion
talsrhed docLrmenrc such as receipts and later
asked the Departmentof Budger and Mi_ esraDrshed that some of the financial
agement rn 2009 for rhe rele-ase of benefi_
more cranes were political supporters
of Crisologo.
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