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BY MAE SINGUAY
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January 26, 2018
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BACOLOD City – Charged with graft, former mayor Alberto Nicor of La Castellana, Negros Occidental was spared from detention after posting bail.
The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office said officers arrested the 66-year-old Nicor at his residence on Jan. 23.
But Nicor was not detained after showing the arresting officers from the municipal police station a document stating that he paid a P90,000 bail bond on Jan. 11 at the Sandiganbayan Third Division in Quezon City. Immediately, the officers released him.
The Office of the Ombudsman charged Nicor with three counts of violation of Section 3(h) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. The case was lodged at the Sandiganbayan last Dec. 11.
When he was still mayor, on Jan. 24, 2013, Nicor issued his wife a business permit to operate a hollow blocks factory. Next day, he issued a mayor’s permit “in favor of himself” to operate a trucking business, the Ombudsman said.
A month after, Nicor issued another mayor’s permit allowing business partner Paul Garcia and himself to operate the trucking business, said the anti-graft body.
These three instances showed that Nicor “intervened in his official capacity” to favor the businesses in which he “had a direct financial or pecuniary interests,” the Ombudsman said.
Section 3(h) of RA 3019 prohibits a government official from “directly or indirectly having financial or pecuniary interest in any business, contract or transaction” in which they have the official capacity to intervene or in which they are prohibited by the Constitution or by any law from having any interest./PN
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