By
Elizabeth Marcelo
ISABELA Vice Gov.
Faustino Dy III and 12 other provincial officials are facing charges over an
alleged anomalous road project.
In a 12-page
complaint-affidavit filed before the Office of the Ombudsman on July 27, former
mayor Manuel Siquian of Angadanan town said Dy and his co-accused should be
investigated for plunder, violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act
and malversation of public funds.
Provincial
treasurer Maria Theresa Araneta-Flores, accountant Pete Gerald Javier,
assistant accountant Rosana Marquez, budget officer and bids and awards
committee member Elsa Pastrana, acting legal officer and BAC vice chairman James
Francis Meer, auditor Marilyn Lopez, BAC chairman Rodrigo Sawit, BAC members
Virgilio Lorenzo and Cherry Gregorio, BAC secretariat Mary Ann Ballesteros and
BAC technical working group members Eduardo Cabantac and Angelo Naui are the
other respondents.
Clemente
Pancho, vice president of CM Pancho Construction Inc. as well as Erika Caitlin
Dy and former Isabela governor Faustino Dy Jr., president and incorporator,
respectively, of Stagno Properties Corp. were also named respondents.
Faustino Jr.
is the half-brother of the incumbent vice governor, Faustino III.
The complaint
stemmed from the alleged anomalous rehabilitation and improvement of the 82-km
Ilagan-Diviclan Isabela Road.
The project
was awarded to CM Pancho Construction Inc. in 2015, when Dy was governor.
It was funded
through a P1.5-billion loan obtained from the Development Bank of the
Philippines (DBP).
Siquian said
there was no public bidding, adding that the project was ovepriced at P20
million per kilometer.
He said the
project would also give “unwarranted benefits” to the Dy family as the road
leads to Honeymoon Island, a beach property owned by the Dy family.
Siquian said
P1.388 billion was paid to CM Pancho Construction as of March 2018, which was
equivalent to 96 percent of the total contract cost even though the project was
only 78.9 percent complete as of February.
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