Sandiganbayan places Roderick Paulate on 90-day suspension
Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 02:19:25 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan has placed actor and Quezon City Councilor Roderick Paulate on a 90-day preventive suspension in relation to graft cases he is facing after allegedly hiring ghost employees.
According the decision from the Seventh Division dated March 11, all the conditions warranting the preventive suspension of Paulate, who is accused of violating Section 3 of R.A. 3019 or the Anti Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, were present.
“To warrant the preventive suspension of accused, the following conditions must be present: that the Information must be valid, and that accused must be charged with the covered offense, i.e. violation of RA 3019, or crimes defined under Title Seven, Book 11 of the RPC (Revised Penal Code), or any offense involving fraud upon government or public funds or property,” the eight-page decision said.
“We find that all of the requisite conditions exist in the case at bar,” they added.
In April 2018, Paulate was charged with graft and falsification of public records after he and his aide, driver and liaison officer Vicente Bajamunde, allegedly conspired to hire 30 non-existent contractual workers, causing undue injury worth P1.1 million within five months.
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Paulate later posted a bail worth P246,000 for his provisional liberty. /je
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