Cusi to ERC chief: Go on leave

Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said yesterday it would be best for Energy Regulatory Commission chairman Jose Vicente Salazar to take a leave pending investigation into ERC corruption as insinuated by the agency’s late director Francisco Villa Jr. in his suicide notes.

“That is a prudent thing to do, to give way to the independent investigation,” Cusi said.

Cusi declined to comment on the next steps that could be taken since the ERC has already asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a probe