The Office of the Ombudsman indicts former education secretary Leonor Briones and other officials for graft and falsification over the overpriced laptops controversy.
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00:01The Office of the Ombudsman indicts former Education Secretary Leonor Briones and other officials for graft and falsification over the overpriced laptops controversy.
00:10In a resolution from last December but made public on Friday, July 11, the Ombudsman recommended the filing of charges for alleged violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act against the following officials.
00:21The Ombudsman also indicts the following for falsification by public officers and the following for perjury.
00:36The cases stand from the Depeds allegedly anomalous transactions related to tablets and data allowances for students and laptops for teachers.
00:45The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigated the transactions and found the procurements were, quote,
00:49highly arbitrary, unjustified, improper, and not beneficial to the Deped teachers and students.
00:56It also found the Budget Department's procurement service had no legal authority to act as an agent on behalf of Deped.
