Anti-graft court Sandiganbayan found that a former prisons official skirted rules on mandatory public bidding and sentenced her to at least 24 years in prison.
MANILA, Philippines – acting chief accountant Ligaya Dador responsible for breaking up contracts into smaller deals to avoid public bidding.
repair of the female comfort rooms on the ground floor of the BuCor administrative building worth P375,000 A public bidding can be avoided under the law if the cost is below P500,000, but prosecution witness Josefina Gonzales, a state auditor, argued that there should have only been one repair project awarded to a winning contractor.
But she insisted that her job was only to determine if there were funds available for a project, not check its legality.The 66-page Sandiganbayan decision promulgated on Friday, June 23, slapped Dador with six to eight years in jail for each count of graft, totaling 24 to 32 years.The court noted that while awarding multiple projects to a same contractor is not inherently wrong, this practice should not be used with the end goal of breaking up contracts in order to avoid public bidding.
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