Kaban ni D_BystandeR: KANUNAYNG MAPIYAPE ANG GAGMAY'NG TRABAHANTE

I am surprised with this kind of punishment meted out by the Ombudsman against a low profile employee, Mae Cheryl Enguio, of the BIR in Cebu City considering that there is no showing that she made money out of what had transpired in the investigation. The punishment is "brutal" in effect and in the sense that she is perpetually barred from having gainful future employment in any government office. I agree to your observation that it should have been her supervisor's lookout to counter check the computation of his subordinate and to call the attention of the couple rather than wait for this case to blow up and reached the Ombudsman's Office for a resolution. This reminds me of a court interpreter who was convicted merely based on her failure to include in her "Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Net Worth" a stall owned in a public market in Davao where she was not able to collect her retirement benefits as a result. And this particular case was confirmed in a ruling by the Supreme Court, and which became a topic of a heated discussion in the wake of reports that the ousted CJ Corona was featured in a news report months after he was impeached in that Senate impeachment trial, that plan was afoot that he (Corona) was in the process of having his benefits collectible in terms of tens of millions of pesos from the coffers of the Supreme Court. There is really a wide disparity of the kind of justice meted out to "small fries" compared to the "high and the mighty."

Footnote: A couple who bought a piece of real property from a bank was supposed to pay in the "Capital gains tax" the amount of P831,417 but in the investigation that followed, it was found out that the couple only paid for P159,960.