{"id":196806,"date":"2019-01-08T00:18:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=196806"},"modified":"2019-01-08T00:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:18:05","slug":"labor-chief-unaware-of-pacc-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/08\/labor-chief-unaware-of-pacc-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor chief unaware of PACC probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112416\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112416\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cI am not aware of any pending investigation or any complaint against me,\u201d he said in a telephone interview. (PNA File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Monday admitted that he has no idea regarding an ongoing investigation against him by the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not aware of any pending investigation or any complaint against me,\u201d he said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p>The DOLE chief added that he has not received any official communication for him to submit an affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have not asked me to reply to any complaint against me,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that he is ready to face any investigation over allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, I am ready,\u201d Bello added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, PACC Commissioner Manuelito Luna said a probe is being conducted against Bello, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority chief Isidro Lape\u00f1a, and National Commission on Indigenous People Chairman Leonor Oralde-Quintayo without giving any further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Monday admitted that he has no idea regarding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":112416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196806","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=196806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}