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Marinduque Province News September 2011 (view source)
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==Ex-governor insists she had no hand in P728-M fertilizer scam== | |||
*Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/nation/7193-ex-governor-insists-she-had-no-hand-in-p728-m-fertilizer-scam | |||
*Tuesday, September 13, 2011 | |||
:by JOHN CONSTANTINE G. CORDON | |||
FORMER governor Carmencita Reyes of Marinduque pressed that the agricultural equipment she received were “donations” from the Department of Agriculture (DA), contradictory to claims that it was her administration that bought the machines which were allegedly sourced from the P728-million fertilizer fund scam. | |||
Reyes, then Marinduque governor when the agriculture department’s Farm Inputs and Farm Implements Program was implemented in 2004, stands charged before the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan for illegal use of public funds and technical malversation. | |||
“[The charges were] farthest from truth. [I] made a written request to the DA in behalf of [Marinduque],” Reyes said, adding that the agricultural shredders she received were asked “upon request.” | |||
When Reyes received the machines after writing a request to DA in April 2004, she “simply thanked the DA for its donation.” | |||
The former provincial chief asked the Sandiganbayan to hold her arraignment in abeyance and to determine if there is probable cause in her case because she was not part of the bidding nor the purchase of the equipment. | |||
“The process by which these machines were purchased and the corresponding process by which the funds were disbursed was beyond [my] authority and control,” Reyes said. | |||
She added in her seven-page motion that it was not her or her provincial staff that bought the shredders which turns waste to organic fertilizers. She reiterated that the funds used to buy (those equipment) was “not under [my] administration, but of the DA.” | |||
“The funds did not pass through the Treasury of Marinduque. These funds remained with and were disbursed directed to the suppliers by the DA, the implementing agency,” Reyes said. | |||
The former governor said that the letter to the DA could not be used against her as it did not instruct DA to transact with LCV Design and Fabrication Corp., the makers of the shredders. | |||
When Reyes mentioned LCV in the letter she said it was only to describe the kind of machines that Marinduque needs to avail. | |||
“The letter simply requests the DA to help the province to obtain ‘said or similar machines,’” Reyes said. | |||
“[I] did not benefit from the donation. [My] letter . . . was a mere letter request addressed to the Regional Director of the [DA] . . . Nowhere in the said letter was anybody forced to or promised a reward to grant [my] request,” Reyes added. | |||
She said that the conspiracy established against her with her co-accused is only a “circumstantial evidence based on pure speculation and conjecture.” | |||
==Re-investigation of Ortega murder ordered== | ==Re-investigation of Ortega murder ordered== | ||
*Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/national/12944-re-investigation-of-ortega-murder-ordered | *Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/national/12944-re-investigation-of-ortega-murder-ordered | ||
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Her move voided a decision of the former panel dismissing the complainants’ motion seeking reinvestigation of the case. | Her move voided a decision of the former panel dismissing the complainants’ motion seeking reinvestigation of the case. | ||
==HRET junks electoral protest vs Marinduque lawmaker== | ==HRET junks electoral protest vs Marinduque lawmaker== | ||