{"id":154024,"date":"2018-02-23T22:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T03:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154024"},"modified":"2018-02-23T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T03:31:49","slug":"maguindanao-town-mayor-charged-with-perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/23\/maguindanao-town-mayor-charged-with-perjury\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguindanao town mayor charged with perjury"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_154025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154025\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sinsuat-sr..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154025\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sinsuat-sr..jpg\" alt=\"Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao Mayor Datu Ombra Sinsuat Sr. (PNA photo)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sinsuat-sr..jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sinsuat-sr.-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao Mayor Datu Ombra Sinsuat Sr. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0The Office of the Ombudsman has found probable cause to indict the mayor of Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao province, Datu Ombra Sinsuat Sr., for violating the code of ethics for public officials and for perjury.<\/p>\n<p>A lifestyle check probe conducted by the Ombudsman\u2019s Field Investigation Unit (FIU) in Mindanao discovered that Sinsuat had failed to declare his Ford Expedition, Mitsubishi Pajero, Honda Civic, and Ford Ranger vehicles in his 2009, 2013, and 2014 Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs).<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Sinsuat failed to declare his relatives working in the government.<\/p>\n<p>In his counter-affidavit, Sinsuat argued that he did not declare the vehicles, as they were no longer usable or have already been sold.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed difficulty in identifying relatives in government service, as \u201cthe Sinsuat family is composed of many members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft body set aside the respondent\u2019s self-serving contentions and ruled that this cannot be given any weight for lack of controverting evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0The Office of the Ombudsman has found probable cause to indict the mayor of Datu Odin Sinsuat town in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[47166],"class_list":["post-154024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-datu-ombra-sinsuat-sr","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}