From: philstar.com
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief
Director General Nicanor Bartolome and 15 other PNP officials were charged
yesterday with graft before the Office of the Ombudsman over an allegedly
anomalous P1.2-billion gun deal.
The complainants, Roferma Enterprises and CM Countermeasures
Equipages and Security Technologies Inc., asked Ombudsman Conchita
Carpio-Morales to issue a preventive suspension order against Bartolome and his
co-accused.
Also charged were Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) chairman Deputy
Director General Emelito Sarmiento, PNP Logistics Director and BAC vice
chairman Arnulfo Perez, and BAC members Directors Felipe Rojas, Roque Ramirez
and Catalino Cuy, Chief Superintendent Francisco Uyami Jr., Senior
Superintendents Edwin Roque and Alexander Pumecha, Superintendents Percival
Placer, Antonio Cirujales, Marlon Gnilo and Roman Merin Jr., Chief Inspector
Jinky Acacio, Senior Police Officer 4 Nonelon Sabigan, and civilian employee
Bernardo Sube.
The complainants said the PNP invited bidders for the supply and
delivery of 59,904 units of 9mm pistols with an approved budget of P1.198
billion early this year.
They said the BAC committed grave misconduct when they required
each bidder to buy bidding documents at P275,000 to recover the cost of
production. They said the documents would actually cost only P1,000 to
reproduce.
The BAC also required each bidder to submit 10 sample pistols, two
of which will be subjected to testing during the post-qualification stage.
The submission of bids was set on June 28
but the PNP issued an authority to import only on June 22, thus preventing Roferma
from importing, transporting and releasing the 10 guns from he Bureau of
Customs on time.
Bartolome had earlier said that the
bidding for the gun deal was transparent and credible. ###
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