Official clears Teves in smuggling case
The Department of Finance said it has not made any endorsement for the illegal release of imported generation sets, refuting the allegations of a suspended Finance employee who filed a smuggling case against Secretary Margarito B. Teves Jr. recently.
Finance Undersecretary Gaudencio Mendoza said Teves never signed an endorsement that will release of the imported generator sets from Singapore-based Aggreko Pte Ltd. by the NPC Alliance Corp. which arrived at the Subic Free Port after it was seized by the Bureau of Customs.
“The generators were never released,” Mendoza told The Manila Times.
Gaudencio said Finance ordered the Customs to proceed with the seizure and disregard the earlier endorsement made by Atty. Eleazar Cesista, head of the department’s Revenue Express Lane.
Therefore, Finance did not provide any tax-free importation permit to a large shipment of generator sets that allegedly resulted in foregone government revenues totaling P373 million, he said.
Gaudencio said the Department of Justice has rejected the complaint of Ruben Anthony Frogoso, former intelligence officer of Finance’s central management information office, that’s why his complaint was filed in the Manila Prosecutors Office.
“The DOJ told us that they rejected the complaint, [and] that’s why it was filed with city prosecutor of Manila,” Mendoza said.
Frogoso sued Teves and other ranking Finance officials for allegedly granting a tax-free importation permit to a large shipment of generator sets.
“The secretary did not sign anything at all [for generation sets’ release], and I did not sign anything at all,” Mendoza said.
The generator sets, according to Frogoso, were allegedly shipped on April 10, 2007.
Mendoza said Frogoso has no credibility to file the complaint.
Frogoso has a Revenue Integrity Protection Service case pending with the Office of Ombudsman that involves dishonesty and grave misconduct. He was suspended six months from July 2007 to January 11, 2008. Prior to this, he had administrative cases filed against him because of frequent, unauthorized absences from work.
“He has no performance to speak off. The guy is floating since then,” Mendoza said.
“If we get the copy of the complaint, we’ll answer. If there’s basis for us to respond a counteraffidavit then we will file it,” Mendoza said. By Maricel Burgonio, Manila Times Reporter
Finance Undersecretary Gaudencio Mendoza said Teves never signed an endorsement that will release of the imported generator sets from Singapore-based Aggreko Pte Ltd. by the NPC Alliance Corp. which arrived at the Subic Free Port after it was seized by the Bureau of Customs.
“The generators were never released,” Mendoza told The Manila Times.
Gaudencio said Finance ordered the Customs to proceed with the seizure and disregard the earlier endorsement made by Atty. Eleazar Cesista, head of the department’s Revenue Express Lane.
Therefore, Finance did not provide any tax-free importation permit to a large shipment of generator sets that allegedly resulted in foregone government revenues totaling P373 million, he said.
Gaudencio said the Department of Justice has rejected the complaint of Ruben Anthony Frogoso, former intelligence officer of Finance’s central management information office, that’s why his complaint was filed in the Manila Prosecutors Office.
“The DOJ told us that they rejected the complaint, [and] that’s why it was filed with city prosecutor of Manila,” Mendoza said.
Frogoso sued Teves and other ranking Finance officials for allegedly granting a tax-free importation permit to a large shipment of generator sets.
“The secretary did not sign anything at all [for generation sets’ release], and I did not sign anything at all,” Mendoza said.
The generator sets, according to Frogoso, were allegedly shipped on April 10, 2007.
Mendoza said Frogoso has no credibility to file the complaint.
Frogoso has a Revenue Integrity Protection Service case pending with the Office of Ombudsman that involves dishonesty and grave misconduct. He was suspended six months from July 2007 to January 11, 2008. Prior to this, he had administrative cases filed against him because of frequent, unauthorized absences from work.
“He has no performance to speak off. The guy is floating since then,” Mendoza said.
“If we get the copy of the complaint, we’ll answer. If there’s basis for us to respond a counteraffidavit then we will file it,” Mendoza said. By Maricel Burgonio, Manila Times Reporter
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