{"id":16711,"date":"2014-06-24T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T08:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16711"},"modified":"2025-01-30T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:22:11","slug":"ombudsman-probes-ex-da-chief-2-ex-solons-pork-scam-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/24\/ombudsman-probes-ex-da-chief-2-ex-solons-pork-scam-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman probes ex-DA chief, 2 ex-solon&#8217;s pork scam involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13795\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FvfOmbudsman0222_17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13795\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FvfOmbudsman0222_17.jpg\" alt=\"Office of the Ombudsman \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office of the Ombudsman \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Office of the Ombudsman is now starting its preliminary investigation on the alleged involvement of the former agriculture secretary Arthur Yap and two former lawmakers in the pork barrel scam.<\/p>\n<p>Yap,\u00a0former lawmakers Rodolfo Antonino of Nueva Ecija and Anthony Miranda of Isabela were charged with malversation of public funds and graft before the\u00a0anti-graft agency\u2019s preliminary investigation bureaus.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy singulair online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/singulair.html\">https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/singulair.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The three officials were\u00a0accused of\u00a0committing irregularities in the allocation of their\u00a0Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will face my accusers in the ombudsman\u2019s preliminary proceedings,\u201d Yap said, maintaining his innocence in an interview for the Philippine Star.<\/p>\n<p>Several officials including\u00a0with former National Agribusiness Corp. (NABCOR) officials Alan Javellana, Encarnita Cristina Munsod, Rhodora Mendoza and Maria Ni\u00f1ez Guanizo, president of Buhay Mo Mahal Ko Foundation Inc. (BMMKFI) Marilou Antonio and Carmelita Barredo, general manager of CC Barredo Publishing House will also be investigated with Yap.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy femara online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/femara.html\">https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/femara.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Miranda,\u00a0Technology Resource Center (TRC) officials Antonio Ortiz, Dennis Cunanan, Marivic Jover, Belina Concepcion, Francisco Figura, Maria Rosalinda Lacsamana and Consuelo Lilian Reyes Espiritu as well as Domingo Mamauag and Edison Sabio of Aksyon Makamasa Foundation Inc.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy prelone online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/prelone.html\">https:\/\/www.dentistwaycrossga.com\/slick\/fonts\/woff\/prelone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> (AMFI) will be investigated along with Miranda.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Philippine Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Office of the Ombudsman is now starting its preliminary investigation on the alleged involvement of the former &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[5857,5858,5156],"class_list":["post-16711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-former-da-sec","tag-lawmakers","tag-pork-scam","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16711","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286970,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16711\/revisions\/286970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}