17 ex-GOCC, NGO execs found guilty in Phillipine pork barrel scam


- Photo: The Philippine Daily Inquirer file

MANILA: The Sandiganbayan has convicted for graft and malversation of public funds 15 former officials of now dissolved government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) that acted as implementing agencies, as well as two members of nongovernment organisations (NGOs) tapped as project partners, in bogus livelihood projects supposedly funded by the pork barrel of a former Misamis Occidental lawmaker, who remains in hiding.

Found guilty by the Sandiganbayan’s Third Division were five former officials of National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor), namely vice president for administration and finance Rhodora Mendoza, who was sentenced up to 175 years in prison; human resource supervisor Encarnita Munsod (108 years); general services supervisor Victor Cacal (43 years); support services manager Romulo Relevo (23 years) and bookkeeper Maria Ninez Guañizo (43 years).

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