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Syjuco faces graft raps

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OMBUDSMAN Conchita Carpio Morales  has ordered the filing of graft charges against  Augusto Syjuco Jr, former director general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority,  and several other officials for violating  the anti-graft and corrupt practices law.

The accused were  alleged to have been involved in the anomalous procurement of 250,000 copies of Salabat for the Filipino Soul, a career guidance book for school children, amounting to P9,250,000.00 that did not undergo public bidding.

The Ombudsman said Syjuco and the Bids and Awards Committee resorted to the alternative mode of limited source bidding when they awarded the project to Grand C.

The Commission on Audit noted that “there was irregular expenditure in the procurement for the printing of SALABAT” which was “disallowed in audit by COA-TESDA on 21 May 2008.”

COA said limited source bidding cannot be resorted to “since the printing of books is neither a highly specialized type of goods” and that “the requirement for resorting to limited source bidding was not complied with.”

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Syjuco’s co-accused are BAC chairman Santiago Yabut, Jr., BAC Vice-chairman Clifford Paragua, BAC members Marjorie Docdocil, Brenda Furagganan, Ma. Lourdes Villanueva, Procurement and Supply Division Chief Juanito Belda and Senior Administrative Assistant  III Glynis June Capoquian-Sionosa, and representatives of Grand C Graphics, Inc. (Grand C) Alfredo Ching, Jr., Nelson Ching, Rene Rufino and Fahmi Asuncion.

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