{"id":17050,"date":"2014-06-26T02:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17050"},"modified":"2014-06-26T02:31:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:31:43","slug":"agriculture-sec-faces-plunder-raps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/26\/agriculture-sec-faces-plunder-raps\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Sec faces plunder raps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10007\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/proceso-alcala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10007\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/proceso-alcala-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala with a local. Photo courtesy of Alcala's Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/proceso-alcala-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/proceso-alcala-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/proceso-alcala.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala with a local. Photo courtesy of Alcala&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala is now facing\u00a0plunder and graft charges before the Office of the Ombudsman filed by an\u00a0umbrella organization of youth and student groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The case is in connection with Alcala&#8217;s alleged involvement in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel scam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alcala was accused of giving the alleged pork scam mastermind, Janet Lim Napoles a total of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">P36.025 million\u00a0during his time as Quezon province congressman and\u00a0P39 million \u00a0during his post as the\u00a0Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOn page 54 of the said report, the COA reported that 41 suppliers with purported transactions amounting to P352.136 million with 17 NGOs out of funds transferred by five implementing agencies denied their involvement and participation in the projects,\u201d reads a statement in the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">13-page complaint filed by Youth Act Now (YAN).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAmong the transactions denied by the suppliers were those coming from the PDAF of then congressman Proceso Alcala of the 2nd District of Quezon who, together with other legislators, transferred funds to the Economic and Social Cooperation for Local Development Foundation Inc. amounting to P36.025 million,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The group also added that the money involved was coming from funds under the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Organic Agricultural Program which Napoles\u2019 NGOs also handled for San Antonio, Nueva Ecija; Umingan, Pangasinan; and the municipalities of Madrid, Hinatuan, Tago and Cantillan in Surigao del Sur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, spokesman of DA,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emerson Palad said they are still waiting for a copy of the said complaints but they are ready to face and answer the charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala is now facing\u00a0plunder and graft charges before the Office of the Ombudsman filed by an\u00a0umbrella &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[5990,5156],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-da-sec-faces-plunder","tag-pork-scam","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","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=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}