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00:00Inusisa ang Commission on Audit tungkol sa confidential funds ng Office of the Vice President at Department of Education
00:06ng dinggin sa Senado ang hinihingi nilang budget para sa 2027.
00:11Sa hearing naman para sa hinihingi budget ng Office of the Ombudsman,
00:15ay sinusulong na madagdagan pa ang kanilang confidential funds na malaking tulong daw sa mga kasong iniimbisigahan nila.
00:21May unang balita si Sandra Aguinaldo.
00:27Mas agresibong paglaban sa katiwalian sa gobyerno raw ang tututukan ng Office of the Ombudsman sa susunod na taon.
00:34Sabi ng Ombudsman sa pagdinig ng Senate Finance Committee para sa kanilang budget,
00:40malaki ang maitutulong dito ng confidential funds.
00:43Sa 7.2 billion pesos na budget na nirekomendan ang Department of Budget and Management,
00:4951 million ang nakalaan para sa confidential fund ng Ombudsman.
00:54Pero ayon kay Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Rimulia, 148.5 million pesos ang orihinal nilang hiling.
01:02Nasabi niya, hindi lang sa investigasyon sa katiwalian magagamit.
01:07I think we're more aggressive in pursuing investigations, Your Honor,
01:11and purchasing information and other things that requires confidential funds to be utilized, Your Honor.
01:18We want to be able to establish safe quarters for witnesses, and sometimes our marshals on themselves.
01:29And also, we have made a move that probably will be surprising to all,
01:35because I have decided, we have decided to hire an assistant Ombudsman for the barm, for the barm.
01:43And this, of course, entails a lot of risk and a lot of protection needed.
01:50Mr. Chairman, that's even a drop in the bucket kung 2,000 for what the work of Ombudsman is doing.
01:57As a matter of fact, there was one office, one office of government that had 125 million five times.
02:05Hindi sinabi ni Sen. Tito Soto kung anong opisina ang tinutukoy niya.
02:10Pero sa impeachment trial ni Vice President Sara Duterte,
02:14tinalakay ang 125 million pesos to confidential fund na natanggap ng opisina sa kada quarter noong 2022 at 2023.
02:24Sabi ni Sen. Finance Committee Chairman Sen. J.V. Ayersito,
02:28pag-aaralan ng Senado kung maaring madagdaga ng confidential fund sa budget ng Ombudsman.
02:34Probably we can add a little. Ito lang yung Ombudsman na very aggressive ngayon, no?
02:39Na talagang seryoso sa pag-asubo ng mga grafters.
02:46Nasa wish list din ng Ombudsman ang pagbili ng karagdaga mga sasakyan,
02:51pati bago office building dahil masikip na raw para sa mga empleyado ang kasalukuya nilang gusali.
02:57Nasa programa pa naman nilang magdagdag ng tauhan at mga abugado
03:02dahil 50% o kalahati ng mga posisyon ang bakante.
03:06Hiniling din ang Ombudsman na madagdagan ang kanilang pondo para sa paglikha ng Ombudsman Martial Service.
03:13Napag-usapan din sa pagtinig at tungkol sa status ng kaso kaugnay sa flood control.
03:18There are now, Your Honor, there are now 35 cases before the courts in the Sandigan Bayan and in the
03:27RTC.
03:30And 31 of them in the Sandigan Bayan and 4 in the RTCs.
03:35We are now conducting 166 cases for preliminary investigation which of course will lead to filing.
03:44Sa panayam ng media, tiniyak din ni Remulya na masasampahan ng kaso si dating Speaker Martin Romualdez.
03:51Relax lang kayo, andyan na yan. Para maganda ang pagkakagawa ng kaso.
03:57Hindi kasi pwedeng mag-file dyan ang mahilang kaso.
04:00Sobrang daming pera niyan, sobrang daming pera, sobrang daming abugado.
04:05Kita nyo naman ang kanilang payroll sa lahat. Lahat nasa payroll na eh.
04:09Nauna ng sinabi ni Romualdez na wala siyang kinalaman sa mga aligasyon ng korupsyon laban sa kanya.
04:17Sa pagdinig para sa 16 billion pesos na 2027 budget ng Commission on Audit,
04:23tinanong sila kaugnay sa impeachment trial ng BICE.
04:27Sumailalim sa audit ng COA ang Confidential Fund ng Office of the Vice President at Department of Education noong kalihim
04:35pa ang BICE.
04:35They filed a motion for reconsideration so we can submit a copy of the decision noong nauna
04:40at saka po yung motion for reconsideration na desisyon namin pag lumabas na po.
04:45Mga amant or so lang.
04:47Sinabi rin ng COA na nais din nilang pag-aralan muli ang kanilang joint circular kaugnay sa Confidential Fund.
04:54I think there are some loopholes in that particular joint memorandum circular.
05:00The present joint memorandum circular po does not exactly prohibit nor does it really straightforwardly allow the use of aliases.
05:11Ang critical nga po dito is on the part of the operational agencies is the matter of the program itself
05:20behind the confidential expenses or the intelligence expenses.
05:25Napapansin po namin that further controls has to be placed.
05:29Ito ang unang balita. Sandra Aguinaldo, GMA News.

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