Friday, October 19, 2018

THE DAP ANOMALY IS ACTUALLY THIS BIG…


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In his column in The Manila Times, Rigoberto Tiglao said not just 274 but 1,997 cases of malversation of public funds should have been filed by Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission commissioner Greco Belgica against former President Noynoy Aquino, his then  Budget Sec. Florencio Abad, and several other Liberal Party stalwarts for the unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). 

This is the link: https://www.manilatimes.net/not-274-but-1-997-counts-of-malversation-vs-aquino-and-his-gang/454005/ As many people as possible should know this so let me share with you the main points in Tiglao’s column:

That’s the number (1,997) of SAROs, or Special Allotment Release Orders, that the Aquino administration released to undertake the DAP, which amounted to a STAGGERING P147 BILION (emphasis mine).  These SAROs are the instructions by the budget secretary or his representatives for the National Treasury to release funds for specific programs and projects.

While each of the DAP’s 1,997 SAROs were signed by Abad or his then deputy, Mario Relampagos, they were all authorized by Aquino himself through four memorandums he signed.  Under Article 220 of the Revised Penal Code:

“Any public officer who shall apply any public fund or property under his administration to any public use other than for which such fund or property were appropriated by law… shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum period or a fine ranging from one half to the total of the sum misapplied…” Prision correccional in its minimum period means a jail term of six months to two years.

The Yellow Regime had managed to keep the DAP secret until Sen. Jinggoy Estrada exposed it in 2013, claiming that DAP funds were used to bribe senators to vote Chief Justice Corona guilty in his impeachment trial. According to Estrada, to bribe them, senators were given P100 million for their “projects,” which, he would only be told later, came from the DAP. After that, and to the credit of our media that did not let up on the issue, Aquino’s budget department was forced to disclose the details of the DAP.

The Supreme Court in 2014 ruled—and affirmed in 2015—that the DAP was patently unconstitutional, that it clearly violated Article IV, Section 29 of the Constitution: “No money shall be paid out of the Treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation made by law.” The projects the SAROs Aquino had ordered to be financed from the budget were not in any of the budget laws from 2010 to 2013.
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