{"id":174886,"date":"2018-08-03T22:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174886"},"modified":"2018-08-03T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:54:41","slug":"palace-wants-carandang-dismissal-executed-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/03\/palace-wants-carandang-dismissal-executed-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace wants Carandang dismissal &#8216;executed&#8217; immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_174437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174437\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Carandang-Arthur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174437\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Carandang-Arthur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Carandang-Arthur.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Carandang-Arthur-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last July 30, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea dismissed Carandang from service after he was found liable for graft and corruption, and betrayal of public trust. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnagovph\/status\/1024541789561094144\">File photo<\/a>: Office of the Ombudsman via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnagovph\">PNA<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday expressed hope that its dismissal order against Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang will be \u201cexecuted\u201d immediately by new Ombudsman Samuel Martires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s immediately executory and we would want to see that the order (will) be implemented immediately as soon as the new Ombudsman takes his oath,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.<\/p>\n<p>Last July 30, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea dismissed Carandang from service after he was found liable for graft and corruption, and betrayal of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>Carandang alleged that President Rodrigo Duterte and his family have accumulated ill-gotten wealth amounting to billions of pesos, based on bank transaction records from the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC).<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the AMLC had later confirmed that the documents used by Carandang were not accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was really \u2018tsismis\u2019 on a matter that should have been handled on a confidential basis and I think that merits the order of dismissal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very clear that the dismissal order is founded on both facts and laws,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said it should be the Office of the President (OP) that should implement the dismissal order but \u201cwe will leave it to the incoming Ombudsman how it will be implemented\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will give him the opportunity to implement that. We will await Ombudsman Martires\u2019 assumption into his new office and we would hope that (the) decision be executed as soon as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte appointed Martires on July 26 to replace retired Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said Carandang \u201ccan avail of judicial review\u201d if the latter disagrees with the OP\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday expressed hope that its dismissal order against Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang will be \u201cexecuted\u201d immediately &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":174437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174886","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=174886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}