00:00The Office of the Ombudsman is currently conducting a physical inventory as part of the agency's effort in fighting corruption.
00:07This following the discovery of alleged parking, not of some cars, but of hundreds of cases filed against high-ranking
00:14officials that were left hanging and pending.
00:17Rod Lagused has the full report.
00:21The Office of the Ombudsman wants to put an end to the so-called parking in the agency or the
00:26prolonged delay in pending complaints.
00:28According to the Antigrap body, around 350 cases involving high-ranking officials are currently pending up on the assumption of
00:36Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Rimulia in the agency.
00:39According to Assistant Ombudsman Mico Clavana, the longest pending case they have seen has been for 12 years.
00:45There are reports about that scheme na may pinapark na kaso dito and obviously yung kahulugan nun is hindi pinapagalaw
00:55ang kaso.
00:56And I think yun po talaga ang magiging result ng bagong rules na wala na mangyayaring ganong parking dahil makikita
01:05na po natin in one glance kung alin ang mga kaso ang tumatagal sa bawat stage.
01:13Under the new process, fact-finding will now take only 90 days and preliminary investigation just 60 days.
01:19The Office of the Ombudsman is currently conducting a physical inventory of pending cases across all its offices nationwide.
01:26Clavana said this is part of the agency's effort in fighting corruption.
01:30In addition to this, the agency also aims to implement digitalization.
01:34With this, the status of complaints can immediately be seen from the evaluation stage, fact-finding preliminary investigation, and even
01:41cases already filed in court.
01:43We wanted to make sure that we had a good grasp of our inventory para malaman ho natin kung ano
01:50yung mga kaso na kailangan pang i-resolve.
01:52The marching orders of the Ombudsman is to make sure that we have zero backlog.
01:57Clavana emphasized that this is important, especially since those who will retire from government will need clearance from the agency.
02:03The office encourages complainants, respondents, or their authorized representatives who have pending cases filed with the agency to help by
02:10providing details of their cases.
02:12The deadline for submission of details is until June 19.
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