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(Eagle News)–Alexander Balutan is no longer the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager. Some media reports said he was fired by President Rodrigo Duterte, but Florante Solmerin, deputy spokesperson at the Office of PCSO General Manager said he opted to resign for personal reasons. Balutan was accused by then-newly-installed PCSO board member Sandra Cam of spending too much for a party for PCSO employees in December 2017. Balutan had admitted to spending P6.3 million for the […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has acquitted the last remaining accused of plunder in the P366-million Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office fund mess. In acquitting former PCSO general manager Rosario Uriarte, the anti-graft court said in its May 11 decision that the prosecution “has not adduced any new or compelling evidence to warrant a finding different from what has already been rendered by the Supreme Court.” Earlier, former PCSO officials Raymundo Roquero, Manuel Morato, Jose Taruc, and Reynaldo Villar, […]
“If it was a party, the people were fed,” Duterte says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday defended Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan over allegations he spent a huge amount of money to hold a party for the agency’s employees. The President said in a speech at a League of Municipalities of the Philippines general assembly that he used to dismiss cases lodged against individuals who were accused of stealing […]
Seek to initiate contempt proceedings vs her (Eagle News) — Forty-eight congressmen are calling for the resignation of Sandra Cam as board member of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. Through Resolution No. 1777 introduced by Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr., Rep. Danilo Suarez, and Rep. Robert Barbers, the lawmakers also sought to initiate contempt proceedings against her. The move, the lawmakers said, stems from Cam’s “contemptuous and threatening remarks” against Teves, whom she accused of being […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he asked gaming consultant Atong Ang to help in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office once. “I called him and I said, ‘Atong, you are the No. 1 gambler here in Davao. You are behind everything. Let’s not kid ourselves. Go to the PCSO, put an end to all that is illegal (there) and help the government,’” Duterte recounted prior to his departure to India. He said […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a retired policeman to the board of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, and re-appointed Sheriff Abas as chief of the Commission on Elections. Anselmo Pinili, the President’s former special envoy on transnational crime, replaced Jorge Corpuz, who resigned citing “health reasons.” Pinili’s term of office will expire on June 30, 2018. Abas, meanwhile, was re-appointed after the Commission on Appointments did not act on his appointment in November […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Chair Jose Jorge Corpuz has resigned. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement in a statement on Friday. According to Roque, Corpuz also resigned as members of the agency’s board of directors. The presidential spokesperson said he cited health reasons behind his resignation. “Mr. Corpuz, for the information of everyone, is not the person whom the President said he will fire for corruption,” Roque said. Only recently, the […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board member Sandra Cam filed grave threats charges against the agency’s general manager Alexander Balutan, whom she accused of being behind the alleged threats she has been receiving since she revealed the conduct of a lavish party in the agency. Cam filed the complaint before the Mandaluyong Prosecutor’s Office. Cam alleged that the first threat she received was on December 27. She said on that day, for the […]
(Eagle News) — Newly appointed Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board director Sandra Cam on Thursday said she was mulling filing charges for grave threats against the agency’s head. In a press conference, Cam said this was because she believed he was behind the threats she has been receiving for the past weeks, right after she divulged what she said was the lavish year-end party held by the agency for its employees. Cam said the party […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will look into what Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office director Sandra Cam said was a “lavish” year-end party held for the agency recently. “Well, I think you know that the President does not tolerate extravagance, so we do not know yet. I’m sure the President will look into the matter. As you know, he’s very sensitive to what is reported by his own people in the different branches of government…,” […]
Says party was “well-deserved” by employees (Eagle News) — The head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office on Thursday defended the conduct of a year-end party for the agency’s employees, adding he was open to any inquiry into the money spent on the celebration. Jose Jorge Corpuz made the pronouncement a day after Sandra Cam, the newly appointed PCSO director, slammed the “lavish” party reportedly held at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, a five-star hotel. Cam […]
(Eagle News) — A co-accused of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in a case over the alleged misuse of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office P366-million confidential and intelligence funds has been acquitted. This after the Sandiganbayan First Division granted Maria Fatima Valdes’ demurrer to evidence, which sought the dismissal of the case because of the prosecution’s allegedly weak evidence. In July last year, Arroyo was also acquitted of the charge. In acquitting her, the Supreme […]
