BANGUED, Abra -- The Office of the Ombudsman
Wednesday ordered the filing of criminal charges before the Sandiganbayan
against a former town mayor and municipal treasurer of Abra for failing to
remit employees’ contributions to Pag-IBIG Fund and the Government Service
Insurance System (GSIS) in 2002 and 2003.
In a 15-page
resolution, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales found probable cause to charge
former mayor Lovelyn Domes-ag and municipal treasurer Dorinda Bumogas of
Peñarrubia town for alleged underpayment or non-payment of employees’
contributions to the Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG Fund and the
GSIS, including repeated failures to remit the exact or correct amount of
contributions to the two agencies from July 1998 to June 2002 and January 2003
to June 2004.
Investigation revealed
that from July 1998 to June 2006, only the contributions for July 2002 to
December 2002 were accounted for.
The case stemmed from
the complaint filed by Ruben Amboni and several others that their GSIS and Pag-IBIG
contributions and loan amortizations due the Philippine National Bank (PNB) and
the Rural Bank of Villaviciosa were regularly deducted from their salaries, but
these were not fully or not remitted at all.
According to the
complainants, they received demand letters from PNB and statements of accounts
from GSIS and Pag-IBIG, but when they brought this matter up to Domes-ag and
Bumogas, the two officials refused to explain where their deducted
contributions went to.
During Domes-ag’s
stint as Peñarrubia mayor (1998-2004), with Bumogas as municipal treasurer,
GSIS contributions not fully paid or not remitted at all totaled P4,075,251.19,
as reflected in the summary of social insurance contribution collectibles.
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