Noy anti-wang wang stance costs life of DBP exec 08/04/2011

Noy anti-wang wang stance costs life of DBP exec

08/04/2011
With almost all of the President’s men going “gaga” over his call for an end to the wang-wang culture of corruption, a high ranking official of a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) tried to force one of his subordinates to sign an affidavit intended to pin down the previous administration for alleged irregular transactions resulting for his underling to commit suicide.

But President Aquino’s anti-wang-wang drive is limited to the anti-corruption drive against the previous administration, a Cabinet secretary allegedly tried to coerce his assistant secretary to sign a purchase order for computer sets without the benefit of a bidding, forcing the asec to resign from his post.

Last Wednesday, Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) lawyer Benjamin Pinpin hanged himself inside one of the rooms in one of the branches of Eurotel in Las Piñas after regretting he had signed the affidavit which would have linked the Arroyos in alleged irregular transactions the bank had entered into.

In his suicide note to his wife, Pinpin lamented he had signed the document which he described as the biggest mistake he had ever committed in his life..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110804nat3.html