The Senate’s antigraft panel recommended that criminal charges be filed against at least eight former and current officials of the DepEd and the PS-DBM who allegedly conspired to purchase overpriced laptops amounting to about P2.4 billion. /PDI
“While they may seemingly act separately, concerted acts were evident to create an opportunity for favored bidders to submit bloated and excessive bids…” it added.
Corporate officers of the joint venture who may be found to have colluded with DepEd and PS-DBM officials also face criminal liabilities. The joint venture companies were identified by the committee as Sunwest Construction and Development Corp., LDLA Marketing and Trading and VST ECS Inc. These changes were “highly arbitrary, unjustified, improper and not beneficial to DepEd teachers and students,” it said.
The committee also recommended that the government take steps to recover the overprice amount declared as proceeds of corruption from Sevilla, Del Pascua and Malana. Any amount that is recovered should then be placed in a “special national teacher’s trust fund,” it said.“We appreciate the investigation conducted by the blue ribbon committee,” said DepEd spokesperson Michael Poa.
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