Kaban ni D_BystandeR: SAYON RANG MAPUSA ANG GAGMAYNG KAWANI
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.
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