Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban of the DA is facing graft charges in the Office of the Ombudsman for his alleged role in the sugar import controversy in February. | krixiasINQ /PDI
The case stems from a shipment of refined sugar that entered the country on Feb. 9 that was flagged by the Bureau of Customs for lacking permits.
In filing the case, the groups argued that an SO was a “necessary prerequisite to importation, otherwise, it is considered a smuggled agricultural product,” also pointing out that only the Sugar Regulatory Administration has the sole power to issue an import order for the commodity. “What Panganiban did when he directed these companies prior to SO No. 6 shows his evident bad faith, gross inexcusable negligence, and manifest partiality,” the groups noted.
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