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Ex-mayor charged with graft

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For allegedly cutting corners in the implementation of a core shelter project, a former mayor in Mindanao was charged with graft by the Ombudsman at the Sandiganbayan.

Former mayor Rosalinda Penera of Santa Monica, Surigao del Norte was charged owing to the alleged questionable disbursement of public funds to facilitate a core shelter project from 2010 to 2013.

Ombudsman prosecutors filed one count of violation of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act against Penera. 

Her co-accused included former Santa Monica officials Dianette Evangelista, Aurea Menil, Gilbert Dagcuta, and Lei Amor Laplana, and Rodulfo Arlan as private respondent.

Penera and her co-accused allegedly used their positions to favor Arlan for the acquisition of a parcel of land in Poctoy, barangay T-Arlan, worth P980,000 for the town’s core shelter project.

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Ombudsman investigators said the accused was able to complete the transaction despite the absence of an appropriation ordinance and prior authorization from the municipal council.

The Ombudsman recommended a bail of P30,000 for each of the accused.

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