Pork’ raps filed vs ex- Nueva Ecija lawmaker
>> Tuesday, July 19, 2016
SAN JOSE, Nueva Ecija
-- The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the filing of charges for graft and
malversation against former Nueva Ecija fourth district Rep. Rodolfo Antonino
for his alleged involvement in the pork barrel scam.
Former agriculture
secretary Arthur Yap; Alan Javellana, Rhodora Mendoza, Encarnita Cristina
Munsod and Maria Ninez Guañizo of the National Agri-Business Corp (Nabcor).;
Marilou Antonio, representative of Buhay Mo Mahal Ko Foundation Inc.
(BMMKFI) and Carmelita Barredo of C.C. Barredo Publishing House were included
in the charge sheet.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales said
Antonino endorsed Nabcor and BMMKFI to the Department of Agriculture as
implementors of his livelihood training kits project in 2007.
“Respondent public officers conspired
with private respondents in this disreputable scheme to defraud government
coffers by preparing fictitious reports and other liquidation documents that
would make it appear that the PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund)-funded
project was implemented,” Morales said.
“In a congressional pork barrel system,
including the PDAF, it is the legislator who exercises...control and custody of
the PDAF share allocated to him,” Morales stated in her ruling.
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