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Tiniyak ng Ombudsman na makakasuhan si dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez.


Kabilang ang flood control scam sa mga napag-usapan nang humarap ang Ombudsman sa pagtalakay ng Senado sa hinihingi nitong pondo para sa 2027.


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00:00Tiniyak ng Ombudsman na makakasuhan si dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez,
00:05kabilang ang flood control scam sa mga napag-usapan
00:08nang humarap ang Ombudsman sa pagtalakay ng Senado
00:12sa hinihingi nitong pondo para sa 2027.
00:16Nakatutok si Sandra Aguinaldo.
00:21Mas agresibong paglaban sa katiwalian sa gobyerno raw
00:24ang tututukan ng Office of the Ombudsman sa susunod na taon,
00:28sabi ng Ombudsman sa pagdinig ng Senate Finance Committee para sa kanilang budget,
00:34malaki ang maitutulong dito ng confidential funds.
00:37Sa 7.2 billion pesos na budget na nirekomenda ng Department of Budget and Management,
00:4351 million ang nakalaan para sa confidential fund ng Ombudsman.
00:48Pero ayon kay Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Rimulia,
00:51148.5 million pesos ang orihinal nilang hiling.
00:56Na sabi niya, hindi lang sa investigasyon sa katiwalian magagamit.
01:00I think we're more aggressive in pursuing investigations, Your Honor,
01:05and purchasing information and other things that requires confidential funds to be utilized, Your Honor.
01:12We want to be able to establish safe quarters for witnesses,
01:19and sometimes our marshals on themselves.
01:23And also, we have made a move that probably will be surprising to all,
01:30because I have decided, we have decided to hire an assistant ombudsman for the barm.
01:36For the barm, and this of course entails a lot of risk and a lot of protection needed.
01:44Mr. Chairman, that's even a drop in the bucket kung tutusin for what the work of the Ombudsman is doing.
01:51As a matter of fact, there was one office,
01:54one office of government that had 125 million five times.
01:59Hindi sinabi ni Sen. Tito Soto kung anong opisina ang tinutukoy niya.
02:04Pero sa impeachment trial ni Vice President Sara Duterte,
02:08tinalakay ang 125 million pesos, the confidential fund,
02:12na natanggap ng opisina sa kada quarter noong 2022 at 2023.
02:18Sabi ni Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. J.V. Ayers ito.
02:22Pag-aaralan ng Senado kung maaring madagdaga ng confidential fund sa budget ng ombudsman.
02:28Probably we can add a little. Ito lang yung ombudsman na very aggressive ngayon.
02:33Na talagang seryoso sa pag-sugpo ng mga grafters.
02:40Nasa wish list din ng ombudsman ang pagbili ng karagdaga mga sasakyan,
02:45pati bago office building dahil masikip na raw para sa mga empleyado ang kasalukuya nilang gusali.
02:51Nasa programa pa naman nilang magdagdag ng tauhan at mga abugado
02:55dahil 50% o kalahati ng mga posisyon ang bakante.
03:00Hiniling din ang ombudsman na madagdagan ang kanilang pondo para sa paglikha ng ombudsman marshal service.
03:07Napag-usapan din sa pagtinig at tungkol sa status ng kaso kaugnay sa flood control.
03:12There are now, Your Honor, there are now 35 cases before the courts in the Sandigan Bayan and in the
03:21RTC.
03:24And 31 of them in the Sandigan Bayan and 4 in the RTCs.
03:28We are now conducting 166 cases for preliminary investigation, which of course will lead to filing.
03:38Sa panayam ng media, tiniyak din ni Remulya na masasampahan ng kaso si dating Speaker Martin Romualdez.
03:45Relax lang kayo, hindihan na yan.
03:46Para maganda ang pagkakagawa ng kaso.
03:51Hindi kasi pwedeng mag-file dyan ang mahinang kaso.
03:54Sobrang daming pera niyan. Sobrang daming pera. Sobrang daming abogado.
03:59Kita nyo naman ang kanilang payroll sa lahat. Lahat nasa payroll na eh.
04:04Nauna ng sinabi ni Romualdez na wala siyang kinalaman sa mga aligasyon ng korupsyon laban sa kanya.
04:11Sa pagdinig para sa 16 billion pesos na 2027 budget ng Commission on Audit,
04:17tinanong sila kaugnay sa impeachment trial ng BICE.
04:20So mailalim sa Audit ng COA ang Confidential Fund ng Office of the Vice President at Department of Education
04:27noong kalihim pa ang BICE.
04:29They filed a motion for reconsideration so we can submit a copy of the decision noong nauna
04:34at saka po yung motion for reconsideration na decision namin pag lumabas na po.
04:39Mga amant or so lang.
04:41Sinabi rin ng COA na nais din nilang pag-aralan muli ang kanilang joint circular kaugnay sa Confidential Fund.
04:48I think there are some loopholes in that particular joint memorandum circular.
04:54The present joint memorandum circular po does not exactly prohibit,
05:00nor does it really straightforwardly allow the use of aliases.
05:06Ang critical nga po dito is on the part of the operational agencies
05:10is the matter of the program itself behind the confidential expenses or the intelligence expenses.
05:19Napapansin po namin that further controls has to be placed.
05:23Sandra Aguinaldo, Nakatutok, 24 Horas.

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