Ombudsman Samuel Martires meted out a six-month suspension order on Overall Deputy Ombudsman Warren Rex Liong, who was then the PS-DBM’s procurement group director, and his fellow respondents. READ:
A source, who agreed to talk on condition of anonymity, said the suspension order was already served by the Ombudsman on Liong and the other respondents on Wednesday.
Gordon, who failed in his reelection bid in the May 2022 elections, had rued the decision of the majority of his colleagues not to sign the report of the Senate’s antigraft panel, which recommended the prosecution of Duterte for betrayal of public trust for supposedly protecting those behind the anomalies.
“As the Senate investigation unfolded, revealing the participation of well-placed officials in government, [Duterte] took the surprising position of undermining the ongoing proceedings,” the report said.The Senate investigation was triggered by the transfer of about P42 billion in the DOH’s pandemic response funds, which was flagged by the Commission on Audit for lack of supporting documents.
“The amounts involved in the dirty transactions were enormous, producing a stench that would have been impossible to ignore in Malacañang,” it said.
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