VERA Files
Mali ang pahayag ni Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri noong Nob. 7 na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan.
A 2015 Commission on Audit (COA) set of guidelines defines confidential expenses as lump sum amounts for “surveillance activities in civilian government agencies.” It categorically states that “in no case shall (confidential or intelligence funds) be used for … construction or acquisition of buildings or housing structures.”
Inaprubahan ng Senado noong Nob. 23 ang panukalang P5.27 trillion na pambansang budget para sa 2023. Ni-realign nito ang hindi bababa sa P170 milyon na confidential na pondo ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gobyerno sa kanilang maintenance at iba pang operating expenses.
What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?
In its 2021 audit report, COA ordered NYC to refund certain amounts of unauthorized or unsubstantiated prepaid load cards as well as irregular and unnecessary expenditures. It had previously issued notices of disallowance after flagging excessive claims of travel and meals in 2018 and “expenses not in accordance with existing government rules and regulations” in 2019.
Bilang pagtugon sa mga alegasyon ng katiwalian sa National Youth Commission (NYC), sinabi
ni Chairperson Ronald Cardema na walang mga notice of disallowance na inilabas ang
Commission on Audit (COA) sa ahensya. Ito ay hindi totoo.
Two videos with similar inaccurate headlines misleadingly claimed former Vice President Leni Robredo could soon be spending time in jail after the Commission on Audit (COA) flagged her old office […]
There is no report of any imprisonment as there are no cases filed against the health secretary, although the Senate blue ribbon committee and the House committee on public accounts began last month separate inquiries into the DOH’s handling of COVID-19 multi-billion funds following a recent Commission on Audit (COA) report flagging “deficiencies” in the agency’s pandemic budget.
Naging pangalawang independiyenteng constitutional body ang Commission on Audit (COA) na nakatanggap kamakailan ng maaanghang na pananalita mula kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Matapos kastiguhin ang Commission on Human Rights (CHR) sa ilang pagkakataon dahil sa kritikal na paninindigan nito sa kanyang giyera laban sa droga, ibinaling ng pangulo ang kanyang galit sa COA dahil sa natuklasan nitong P67.32 bilyon “deficiencies” ng Department of Health (DOH) sa paggasta ng mga pondo para sa pagtugon sa COVID-19.
The Commission on Audit (COA) recently became the second independent constitutional body that got a tongue-lashing from President Rodrigo Duterte. After castigating the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on several occasions for its critical stand on his war on drugs, the president has turned his ire on COA over its findings noting “deficiencies” in P67.32 billion of the Department of Health’s (DOH) spending of the COVID-19 response funds.