BY EUGENE Y.ADIONG
BACOLOD City – The complainant in the plunder case filed against Sipalay City’s Mayor Oscar Montilla denied he was behind the alleged “deceptive and misleading” documents sent to the media.
While Rodolfo Divinagracia confirmed having filed the complaint against Montilla three years ago, he denied distributing documents to media regarding the Ombudsman order requiring Montilla to file a counter-affidavit.
“It is still pending with the Ombudsman,” Divinagracia said, adding that he is in fact going to write another letter to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales inquiring about the status of the case.
The media here received last week six pages of documents attached to the Ombudsman order in OMB-V-C-14-0120 case dated June 9, 2014.
Among the supporting documents was a letter of Divinagracia inquiring about the status of the plunder case he had filed against Montilla and others on March 2, 2012.
Also attached was a letter from Commission on Audit regional director Evelyn Reyes dated March 28, 2014 assuring Divinagracia that an audit report on the construction of the New Government Center in Sipalay City would be furnished to him.
Divinagracia asked for a special audit on the construction of the government center.
“How can I distribute it in Bacolod when I am based in Manila where I work,” Divingracia said.
Sipalay City legal officer Elmer Balbin called the documents “misleading and a deception.”
Balbin said the Ombudsman order was about the compliance of the mayor on the suspension of four city department heads.
“The mayor already implemented the suspension of the four city department heads on January 2012 to March 2012 and we have already submitted a compliance report to the Ombudsman,” he said./PN
