VILLANUEVA, LINKED TO MILITARY PERSONAL PORK BARREL
Ex- AFP CoS got P164 - M ‘pabaon’
By Angie M. Rosales 02/04/2011The corruption in the military at high levels is bigger than originally thought, with yet another bombshell dropped yesterday, bringing forth the information that even bigger send-off money is given to departing Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chiefs of Staff (CoS), apart from at least two military chiefs engaging in juggling AFP funds and diverted to their private accounts while using these juggled funds as their own personal “pork barrel.”
Former military budget officer Col. George Rabusa, in his latest revelations before the Senate blue ribbon committee yesterday, testified that he had given retired Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, former military comptroller, P164 million which Garcia said was the amount needed as a “send-off” gift to former AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Diomedio Villanueva when the latter retired from the service and the more than $2 million “tax refund” on a botched $5-million contract.
Rabusa said ex-AFP CoS Roy Cimatu while still deputy chief of staff, at one time, ordered him to come up with $2 million within a period of one week.
This was in relation to the $5-million contract that allegedly pertains to a clandestine acquisition
of an unmanned aerial vehicle (AUV) involving supposedly Chief of Staff Angie Reyes, Villanueva, Cimatu and Garcia..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110204hed1.html
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