THE SANDIGANBAYAN has convicted a former Cebu town mayor of violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act for using municipal funds to buy food items from a bakeshop owned by his family in 2010.
In a 38-page
decision dated February 22, the anti-graft court’s Third Division found former
Aloguinsan town Mayor Augustus Caesar Moreno guilty and sentenced him to up to
20 years in prison. The same penalty was handed down by the court to Moreno's
co-accused Evangeline Manigos, a member of the municipal government's Bids and
Awards Committee.
“The Court finds
that the prosecution has successfully proven all the elements of the crime,”
the Sandiganbayan said, adding the “accused Augustus Moreno actually
participated or intervened in his official capacity in connection with his
interest in the transactions of the municipality of Aloguinsan with AVG
Bakeshop.”
Moreno’s wife,
Cynthia who is also a former Aloguinsan mayor, and five other municipal
officials were charged by the Ombudsman for allegedly buying a total of
P287,725 worth of food supplies in the bakeshop. But the anti-graft
court ordered that the cases against Cynthia and other former BAC members
Pepito Maguilimotan, Nonela Villegas, Marilyn Flordeliza and Gertrudes Ababon, be
archived as they remain-at- large. (Benjamin Pulta)
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