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Pagcor seeks Duterte’s clarification on CoA note

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The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. has asked for presidential clarification regarding the Commission on Audit’s findings on their alleged violation of employee compensation and allowances.

“We are seeking clarification from the President [Rodrigo Duterte] if this should go on,” Pagcor chairman Andrea Domingo said on Friday.

The Commission on Audit, based on its 2017 report, had questioned Pagcor’s P13.020 million worth of 18 karat gold rings as well as cash amounting to P12.495 million, which were awarded to the corporation’s 20-year loyalty awardees.

The CoA said the amounts violated the circular issued in 2013 which provides a maximum cash award of P10,000 for loyalty awardees, even when the awards are in the Pagcor’s employee handbook.

Domingo slammed the CoA’s timing of the report and scored as well the news item that portrayed her as dictating her own salary.

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“There were no additional benefits. We only retained what was implemented by the last administration because of the Presidential Directive as amended in 2008 by Pagcor. We didn’t add any new benefits,” Domingo said during a radio interview with dzMM’s Failon Ngayon program.

She said there had been an agreement with the Government Commission for GOCC’s which was due to the presidential directive released during the time of President Fidel Ramos.

“CoA wanted us to follow their interpretation of the law. I cannot overturn the presidential directive by myself. Only another president can actually revise, amend or cancel that directive,” the chairman said.

Domingo also likened the case to the alleged under-remittance of P21.186 billion to the Bureau of Treasury.

The auditors were the ones who first suggested to the corporation to seek clarification from the Office of the President regarding the grant of benefits to loyalty awardees.

Pagcor had initially denied the accusation and said the report had “no basis.”

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