Marcelo ‘lapses’ in Ligot, Garcia cases cited
03/04/2011Former Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo allegedly committed lapses similar to those being raised against current officials in the Office of the Ombudsman and were even worse.
Former Solicitor General Frank Chavez bared this before Senate probers yesterday as he disclosed the fact that plunder charges were actually filed against retired military comptroller Lt. Gen. Jacinto Ligot as early as 2005, almost the same time as that of his successor, Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, but these were said to have been disregarded and reduced to mere forfeiture cases.
Chavez told the Senate blue ribbon committee, during the continuation of its investigation into corruption in the military, that he and his group called Operation Clean Hands initiated the filing of the case against Ligot almost at the same time as that of Garcia.
Ligot’s case was the second plunder complaint his group lodged before Marcelo’s office, filed on April 15, 2005, or just a month after the Garcia case..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110304hed2.html
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