Malampaya

charges of graft and of malversa 25 individuals in connection with the Malampaya funds in 2009 to 2010, but later reconsidered its with plunder. The respondents included former Budget Secretary and now Camarines Sur first district Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., former Undersecretary Mario Relampagos; former Agrarian Secretary and now Masiu, Lanao del Panlilio, then-Chief Accountant Angelita Cacananta, and then

Also charged were former Candaba Mayor Rene Maglanque as well - poles, Reynald Lim, Ruby Tuason, Evelyn de Leon, Ronald Francisco Lim, Ronald John Lim, a.k.a. John Lim, Eulogio Rodriguez, Simplicio Gumafelix, John Raymund de Asis, Paquito Dinso, Jr., Gerald Apuang, Ma. Winnie Villanueva.

According to the Ombudsman, they were “found to have” supposedly “acted in concert” allegedly “to divert the fund releases drawn from the P900-million Malampaya fund allocated by the DBM to the DAR, in 2009,” which was allegedly “malversed and coursed

that he will be acquitted.

The Ombudsman alleged that the accused had conspired with one another to cause undue in in the total amount of P900 mil involved were Micro Agri Business Citizens Initiative Foundation, Inc., P55 million; Tanglaw Para sa Magsasaka Foundation, Inc., P72.5 million; Abundant Harvest for People’s Foundation, Inc., P75 million; Bukirin Tanglaw Foundation, Inc., P75 million; Dalangpan Sang Amon Utod Kag Kasimanwa Foundation, Inc., P75 million; Kasaganahan Para sa Magsasaka Foundation, Inc., P75 million; Kaupdan Para Sa Mangunguma Foundation, Inc., P75 million; Masaganang Buhay Foundation, Inc., P75 million; Ginintuang Alay sa Magsasaka Foundation, Inc., P77.5 million; Saganang Buhay sa Foundation, Inc., P80 million; Gintong Pangkabuhayan Foundation, Inc., P82.5 million; and Karangayan Para sa Magbubukid Foundation, Inc., P82.5 million.

(To be continued)