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Auditor in plunder case to launch truth campaign

Published by Ellen on January 23, 2011

By Yvonne T. Chua and Ellen Tordesillas
VERA Files

Mendoza
A former state auditor who testified against ex-military comptroller Carlos Garcia disclosed over the weekend a “request” from a government office for her to tell the public the evidence in the plunder case against the retired major general is weak.

For related documents: list of assets and properties, plea bargain agreement and the OSG intervention, click here -VERA Files.

But the request, made about a week after the Sandiganbayan on Dec. 16 allowed Garcia to post bail on the basis of his plea bargain agreement with special prosecutors, has only strengthened Heidi Mendoza’s resolve to reveal what she says is “the truth behind the Garcia case.”

“It is plunder; it is more than P50 million. I am standing by my story,” said Mendoza who left her job at a multilateral bank on Friday to embark on a “truthtelling” mission.

Plunder, the acquisition of ill-gotten wealth of at least P50 million by a public officer, is nonbailable and punishable by life imprisonment.

Mendoza, who headed a special six-member team the Commission on Audit detailed with the Office of the Ombudsman from 2004 to 2006 to investigate Garcia’s transactions, is the lone prosecution witness who told the court that the former comptroller committed plunder.

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Gen.Garcia case: a test of Aquino’s anti-corruption drive

Published by Ellen on January 4, 2011

Update: Sandiganbayan okayed Garcia plea bargain last May (during the Arroyo administration)

A briefer on the Carlos Garcia case

Update: Tax case filed vs Garcia

Getting away with plunder
The Office of the Solicitor General is set to file an intervention to the plea bargain deal of Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Ombudsman that allowed him to get away with plunder of taxpayers’ money allotted for the soldiers who are asked to lay their life to keep peace and security for the people.

Tuesday, staff members of the OSG were reportedly busy copying the nine volumes of documents that gave a glimpse of the massive corruption in the military.

That’s a welcome news because many are wondering why the Aquino government seemed not to be moving while Garcia, his wife and children were securing their ill-gotten wealth and freedom.

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Tim Garcia: under arrest in designers’ garb

Published by Ellen on September 13, 2009

This is another world!

Fashion’s night on probation
by Peter Davis

tim garcia 2Timothy Mark Depakakibo Garcia, a 25-year-old publicist for Marc by Marc Jacobs, has a court-ordered Fashion Week curfew.

Perched on a sleek white Armani Casa chair in his apartment in the modern, gilded Trump Plaza at 502 Park Avenue, Garcia is decked in head-to-toe designer: a supple caramel leather Alessandro dell’Acqua jacket, Alexander McQueen jeans, a thin white LnA tee shirt and YSL boots. His wrists are adorned with a big Cartier gold and silver Tank watch, a Cartier Love bracelet, a white enamel Hermes bangle and a $1000 dollar large gold plated spiked Hermes cuff called the Collier de Chien.

Then Garcia daintily rolls up his jeans to reveal one accessory he’d rather not be wearing: an electronic monitoring house arrest ankle bracelet, code number “HGM94472.” The thick plastic black box, the size of a pack of cigarettes, is snug up against his tiny ankle. Garcia’s movements are recorded by Homeguard 200, a big black machine connected to his angular, futuristic Bang and Olufsen phone.

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Garcia walks on perjury rap, but plunder charge remains

Published by Ellen on June 18, 2009

by Peter Tabingo
Malaya

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Gen. Carlos Garcia scored his third win against government prosecutors yesterday after the Sandiganbayan First Division acquitted him on a perjury case alleging that he failed to disclose the total value of his properties in his 1997 statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).

In a 25-page decision penned by Associate Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo, the graft court held that government lawyers failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Garcia stated a deliberate falsehood when he failed to declare ownership of three vehicles in his SALN.

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US plays game with Arroyo

Published by Ellen on March 15, 2009

Update: Rape victim Nicole in US “for good”, terminates services of lawyer.

It is no idle coincidence that the arrest of family members of disgraced Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia , former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines happened at the time when calls for the abrogation of Visiting Forces Agreement is mounting.

They are part of a high-stakes power play that sadly reduces the Filipino people as pawns. For the United States, at stake is their being able to maintain their diminishing dominance in Asia Pacific amid China’s growing global influence. For Gloria Arroyo, it’s political survival.

Fourteen months away from the end of her corruption-riddled presidency, Gloria Arroyo has been begging for a photo-opportunity with the new U.S president thinking that the picture would negate the creeping impression that the Americans have written her off especially after the World Bank released the report that her husband Mike Arroyo is involved in corruption in public works projects.

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