The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTr) has filed graft charges against former Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya for the perennial poor services of the Metro Rail Transit – 3 (MRT-3).
DOTr's Legal Affairs and Procurement Division filed the 29-page complaint at the Ombudsman on Monday.
The department cited that in 2016 alone, the MRT-3 encountered a total of 649 service interruptions in which passengers were made to alight from the trains.
The complaint also said, MRT's maintenance service provider, Busan Universal Rail Incorporated (BURI), is not just a newly-found corporation that lacked the required years of experience, but more importantly, it had not joined the bidding at all.
Included as respondents are four former transportation officials, six ex-members of the department's Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) and 10 officers and staff of BURI.
