Sandiganbayan (File photo) MANILA - The Sandiganbayan cleared a regional accountant of the Department of Agriculture (DA) implicated in alleged irregularities in the procurement of PHP3 million worth of fertilizer in Romblon in 2004. The anti-graft court acquitted DA-Regional Field Unit IV (DA-RFU IV) accountant Raymundo Braganza of corruption and malversation charges. "The Court finds no evidence to support the claim that accused Braganza made any false statements when he certified the subject ALOBS (allotment and obligations slips) or that he had knowledge of or was complicit in any acts of falsification or malversation as charged," read the decision on March 4 and uploaded recently. In 2014, the Ombudsman found probable cause to indict a number of officials, led by then congressman Perpetua Ylagan of the lone district of Romblon, as well as DA-RFU officials led by executive director Dennis Araullo, Braganza, budget officers Ma. Nieves Nabor and cashier Dory Iranzo, and Gro
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MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a petition filed by a former Bohol lawmaker questioning the findings of the Commission on Audit (COA) that resulted in the disallowance of a transaction in 2010 for the purchase of PHP3.5 million worth of liquid fertilizers. In a resolution uploaded on the SC website on December 9, the court dismissed the petition filed by former Congressman Roberto C. Cajes who had questioned findings of the COA before the tribunal. Cajes, the former representative of the 2nd District of Bohol, had questioned the COA's notice of disallowance on the purchase of Magnecrop Foliar liquid fertilizers by the KAMAMA Foundation as part of the implementation of farm input programs under the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) projects for his district. In 2010, the COA field office at the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Field Unit issued the notice of disallowance (ND) against the amount of PHP3.54 million representing the alleged overpriced val