President Marcos named retired Court of Appeals Justice Melchor Sadang as the new chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).
Under the supervision of the Department of Justice, the PCGG serves as an anti-corruption agency tasked to investigate graft and corruption cases of public officials and institute measures to prevent unlawful practices in government.
Sadang served as a CA magistrate from 2011 to 2017 and a presiding judge of the Cavite City Regional Trial Court from 2000 to 2011.
Sadang was one of the five-man committee that led the government’s massive investigation into the alleged drug links of third-level police officers last year.
Aside from Sadang, Marcos also appointed Charlito Martin Mendoza and Domini Velasquez as Undersecretaries of the Department of Finance (DOF); Asis Perez as Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA); Jesus Nathanial Martin Gonzales as Undersecretary of the Department of Transportation; and Rose Marie J. Arenas as a member of the Board of Directors of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office.