{"id":21311,"date":"2014-08-08T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T05:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2025-01-18T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:33:40","slug":"former-nfa-officials-face-graft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/08\/former-nfa-officials-face-graft-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFA officials face graft charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3975\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3975\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Former\u00a0National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Lito Banayo and five others are now facing graft charges before the anti-graft court for their alleged involvement in the irregular rice importation program of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday filed against Banayo and other officials including\u00a0NFA special bids and awards committee (SBAC) chair Joe Cordero and members Celia Tan, lawyer Gilberto Lauengco, Carlito Co, and lawyer Judy Carol Dansal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxicillin online <a href=\"https:\/\/careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/amoxicillin.html\">https:\/\/careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/amoxicillin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon investigation, the NBI discovered a scheme whereby certain rice traders\/importers were able to corner the National Food Authority\u2019s rice import allocations through the use of farmers\u2019 organizations\/cooperatives and single proprietorships as dummies in the NFA bidding for rice Import Allocation under the Private Sector-Financed importation thru the NFA Tax Expenditure Subsidy,\u201d the report signed by NBI Director Virgilio Mendez indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, separate charges of bid-fixing, monopoly and restraint of trade were filed before the Justice Department against\u00a0Davidson Bangayan also known as \u201cDavid Tan.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy isotretinoin online <a href=\"https:\/\/cdhc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/isotretinoin.html\">https:\/\/cdhc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/isotretinoin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The charges which all amounted to violations of the Government Procurement Reform Act (RA 9184) and the Revised Penal Code were filed against Bangayan for his alleged involvement in rice smuggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Former\u00a0National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Lito Banayo and five others are now facing graft charges before the anti-graft &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[3225,5500],"class_list":["post-21311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-nfa","tag-rice","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311","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=21311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285367,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions\/285367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}