3 ex-TLRC top brass to serve 28 yrs
By Nidz Godino
Sandiganbayan's Third Division sentenced former Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC) officers Dennis Cunanan, Belina Concepcion and Marivic Jover to up to 10 years in prison for graft and maximum of 18 years for malversation of public funds.
Accused have been found guilty of misusing nearly P10 million in Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel of the late Negros Oriental congressman Herminio Teves in 2007.
In 68-page decision released recently, also found guilty were Teves' former chief of staff Hiram Pulido and Molugan Foundation Inc. (MFI) president Samuel Bombeo.
Teves was cleared of charges due to his death in 2019.
Sandiganbayan acquitted former TLRC executive Francisco Figura for lack of evidence.
Another former TLRC executive, Antonio Ortiz, was not meted any penalty as he remains at large.
Sandiganbayan ordered cases filed against Ortiz archived, to be revived upon his capture.
Anti-graft court has issued warrant for his arrest.
Cases were filed by Office of the Ombudsman in 2017 after probers found Teves, without public bidding, released P10 million of his PDAF allocation to MFI for his livelihood projects for the poor.
Ombudsman said MFI failed to implement projects as it was incorporated only in 2007.Sandiganbayan also found former TLRC officials conspired with each other to allow Bombeo to take P9.6 million of pork barrel funds
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