Kimberly Jane T. Tan, GMANews.TV
A former budget officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday accused former Defense chief Angelo Reyes of receiving not less than P50 million as “pabaon” (send-off money) when he retired as military chief of staff in 2001.
“Upon retirement we give some amount to the retiring chief of staff,” bared former Army Col. George Rabusa during the Senate hearing on the controversial plea bargain agreement entered into by former AFP comptroller Maj. General Carlos Garcia and the Office of the Ombudsman.
Other highlights of the hearing:
-Special Prosecutor Wendell said in the light of the Rabusa testimony they may re-open the probe on Garcia.
-“I’m not applying to become a state witness,” Garcia said when asked by Trillanes the possibility of changing his mind and cooperate with the government.
Rabusa said he and then AFP comptroller Lt. Gen. Jacinto Ligot, his superior, personally brought the money to Reyes at the AFP chief of staff quarters dubbed as the “White House.”
He said since it was “very bulky” to carry the P50 million, they had it converted to dollars.
The military on Thursday admitted the practice of giving millions of pesos of “pabaon” (send-off money) to retiring chiefs of staff, but said the illegal practice is no longer being done.
“It doesn’t happen anymore because of the innovations that were done, that were undertaken after the General Garcia case came out in the open,” said Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesman Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta.
Garcia, a former AFP comptroller facing a plunder case before an anti-graft court, is accused of amassing over P300 million in ill-gotten wealth while he was in active service.
Mabanta said the practice stopped with the abolition of the office of the AFP deputy chief of staff for comptrollership (J6) in 2004 following the Garcia scandal. J6 was replaced by the office of the AFP Resource Management Office, office of the AFP Management and Fiscals Office, and the office of the AFP Internal Auditor.
“A lot of things have happened to the comptroller. From a very big office, it was divided into smaller offices. One of the intentions of this is to show there is check and balance, not one office will decide on the financial issues,” said Mabanta.
Mabanta made the statement after former Lt. Col. George Rabusa, a former military budget officer, accused former AFP chief Angelo Reyes in a Senate hearing of receiving P50 million of send-off money upon his retirement from the military. (Read more)
Military sources described the send-off money as “the uncalled for practice being undertaken by a particular chief of staff and the comptroller division.”
“Wala sa record pero diskarte lahat ng comptroller yan. Walang ibang nakaka-alam [niyan] kundi and CS [chief of staff] at comptroller lang,” a ranking officer told GMANews.TV.
(The amount is not entered in records but the comptroller knows it. Only the chief of staff and the comptroller know it.)
The same sources, however, said that the “practice” does not automatically apply to all chiefs of staff.
Converted cash funds
Rabusa, who hinted that Reyes was not the only chief of staff who benefited from the “pabaon” practice, said the money came from the AFP’s Provision for Command Directed Activities (PCDA), which is pooled from the different units within the military organization.
“When he (chief of staff) retires during his tenure . . . the balance in the PCDA are all converted into cash and given to the retiring chief of staff,” he said.
Rabusa, who was called to the Senate inquiry by Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, said chiefs of staff also get around P10 million monthly while in service, half of which supposedly goes to their pockets.
Calculating the amounts, Estrada said Reyes probably received around P100 million during his 20-month tenure as AFP chief of staff.
Rabusa said others on the PCDA’s payroll were the office of the vice chief of staff, which allegedly received P1.5 million; deputy chief of staff, P1.5 million; secretary of joint staff, P1 million); personnel of the House legislative office, retired generals, and members of the Defense Press Corps, among others.
Rabusa said former AFP chiefs of staff Gen. Diomedio Villanueva and Gen. Roy Cimatu, the current ambassador to the Middle East, also received P10 million each as “start-up” funds when they assumed office.
Denial
Ligot, for his part, repeatedly said during the inquiry that he could not remember being with Rabusa when they allegedly gave the money to Reyes.
“I’m trying to recall, hindi ko po talaga maalala ang specifics (but I really can’t remember the specifics),” he said, even when Estrada threatened to detain him at the Senate until he remembers giving the money to Reyes.
Reyes, on the other hand, denied Rabusa’s accusation and said he never asked anything from him.
“Hindi ko po natatandaan na tumatanggap ako ng ganyan. Hindi ako santo (pero) hindi po ako tumatanggap ng iligal (I don’t remember receiving anything like that. I am not a saint but I don’t accept anything that is illegal),” he said during the hearing.
Reyes, however, admitted that his office received a certain amount of funding, but quickly added that it didn’t reach P5 million.
He likewise lamented the “wrong impression” that the allegation was causing his name. “I have my name to protect. I’ve served this government for a long time,” he said.
Trillanes vs Reyes
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, a former Navy officer, said Reyes has no one to blame regarding his tarnished reputation but himself. “If you’re so concerned with your name sana nag-ayos kayo (you should have been good) while you were in office,” he told him during the hearing.
“I was incarcerated for more than seven years. During those times all of you (said my) allegations are baseless. I believe this is the time of reckoning, you better find good lawyers,” added Trillanes, who led a military uprising in 2003 and accused the AFP and Defense leadership of corruption.
Special Prosecutor Wendell Barreras-Sulit of the Office of the Ombudsman, who was present in the hearing, said they would conduct an investigation into Rabusa ‘s allegations.
“Mag-umpisa kami ng bagong imbestigasyon at sumasang-ayon ang aking mga kasamahan (My colleagues and I agree that we need to conduct a new investigation),” she said during the inquiry.
Rabusa as state witness?
Rabusa’s lawyer Noel Malaya said his client wishes to become a state witness. “Considering he is not the most guilty of them… we want to tell the truth,” he said.
Estrada has asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place Rabusa under the witness protection program. Senator Franklin Drilon said Rabusa can be placed under Senate custody until he is not yet under the DOJ’s protection.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said he will take responsibility over Rabusa “because he is a witness who was personally appeared before the chamber.”
Rabusa first testified in a Senate investigation in 2004 when the chamber held an inquiry into the Garcia corruption case.
Rabusa was earlier charged with three counts of perjury and unlawfully acquiring property and vehicles amounting to more than P43 million despite only having an annual salary of P275,000.
According to the Office of the Ombudsman, his net worth increased from P618,000 in 1990 to P7.18 million in 2003. His wife and father-in-law were likewise charged with conspiring with him.
A Newsbreak article said after Garcia’s arrest in 2004, the military also put Rabusa under house arrest. The Ombudsman included him in the charge sheet but only Garcia was implicated in the plunder case. The case against the Rabusa in the military never prospered. He opted for early retirement in 2004 to run for mayor.
Estrada, however, noted that they did not intend to “pin down” anyone during the hearing. “We are just doing this to purge corruption from the military,” he said in Filipino.
Reyes, a former military chief, headed the Defense Department from 2001 to middle of 2003. Garcia was military comptroller from March 2001 to September 2003.
Rabusa served as budget officer during the time of Garcia as J6 (deputy chief of staff for comptrollership, now defunct) and Ligot, Garcia’s predecessor. – KBK, GMANews.TV
Excerpts from the Inquirer report:
In the case of Reyes, Rabusa said it was a “bigger amount.”
Pressed by Estrada if he had any estimate of the money given to Reyes, Rabusa said, “Probably not less than P50 million.”
“We brought the money your honor in the quarters of the Chief Staff in GHQ [General Headquarters] at Camp Aguinaldo that we call ‘White House’,” he said.
Rabusa said the P50 million was sourced from the Provision for Command Directed Activities (PCDA) fund contributed by military officials.
He said the PCDA fund was P40 million a month or P480 million a year, which was “readily available at the disposal of the Chief off Staff.
Aside from the P50 million “send-off” money for Reyes’ retirement, Rabusa said then Chief of Staff had also been receiving P5 million a month, and another P5 million for his staff. The same was also sourced from the PCDA.
Rabusa said other military officials also received at least P1 million a month. Rabusa himself admitted that he also received at least P500,000.
“Kapag kayo nag-aabot ng pera halimabawa kay General Reyes, kay General [Carlos] Garcia, hindi ka ba binabalatuhan?” Estrada asked.
Reyes faced the Senate to answer allegations that he was behind Garcia when the former military comptroller allegedly amassed P303 million worth of bank accounts and properties.
Thanks to Malaya Business Insight for photo
Sorry, I left the Senate hearing lunchtime before Lt. Col. Rabusa came. I had to be in training workshop on writing about human rights for provincial journalists that VERA Files is conducting.
I’m transferring comments on the today’s hearing on the plea bargain forged by the Ombudsman with Maj. Gen (ret) Carlos Garcia posted in earlier thread.
parasabayan – January 27, 2011 3:30 pm
I am now watching the senate hearing. Ang daming “bomba”. Corruption is so easy to do in the AFP, maraming loopholes. Kaya naman pala kawawa ang mga sundalo natin.
Trillianes told Reyes, “you do not have a reputation to protect”…I hope I did not hear this wrong! But if I heard it right, and gulong ng palad nga naman…Ngayon si Trillanes na ang “your honor”.
TonGuE-tWisTeD – January 27, 2011 6:02 pm
psb, you heard right. Supalpal si Reyes kay Trillanes THREE TIMES! Yung una, pinipilit ni Reyes magtanong kay Col. Rabusa na ayaw payagan ni TG Guingona. Nakulitan yata si AT4 kaya habang makulit si Reyes na “…if I may, your honor, if I may…” hirit si AT4 ng “NO, you may NOT!” Tapos sabi pa ni AT4, “I suggest you get yourself a good lawyer.” Mukhang tutuluyan siya ni Trillanes.
Yung pangalawa nga yung sinasabi mo, psb. Sabi kasi ni Reyes paulit-ulit, “It’s my name that’s being besmirched here, it’s my reputation that I have to protect…” Sabay hirit uli ang AT4 ng, “You do not have a reputation to protect!” Mapula na ang tenga ni Reyes kaya pinagbigayan na rin ni Guingona later on.
Pero di pa rin huminahon si AT4 kaya tumira pa rin pagkatapos maglitanya ni Reyes ng mga accomplisghments niya sa anti-smuggling, jueteng, yung SOCOM chief pa siya, etc. Tapal Vulcaseal ang binitiwan ni AT4, “We do not care about your accomplishments here, those are irrelevant. What we want to know is if you accepted money.” Sinegundahan naman ni Jinggoy who has the floor nung oras na yon. “We were in jail for more than seven years, now you have this (Rabusa’s testimony).” Ang pagkakaintindi ko sa sinabi ni AT4 e nakulong sila dahil sa paglahad ng korapsyon sa AFP, eto ngayon ang ebidensiya, si Rabusa nga.
Which confirms what Brenda said which I’m sure she got from Benjie, her brother who also became CSAFP (even for 75 days) months later after Reyes did.
For info, Benjie(Class 69) and Angie never really saw eye to eye. Benjie was the lone major service commander who questionned the legality of Angie’s prodding the commands to mutiny against Erap in 2001 and that up to the last minute (while Gloria was waiting in the ante room where they were all holed up) Benjie was arguing heatedly with Angie. Benjie has a higher sense of honour in that regard and felt that what Angie was ordering them to do was unconstitutional.
Benjie was the only major service command who was prepared to defend Erap and the presidency at that time but of course not only was his command not quite the fightingest “infantry” in the armed services but also the smallest. Even the “brave” FOIC Wong caved in! Sanamagan!
Despite that, he had ordered an aircraft to hover just in case Espinosa made good his word that he and his contingent from Queson would march to Malacanang and fight it out with Calimlim’s command. (People thought that the aircraft was to protect the mutineers led by Gloria — they were goddamn wrong, it was in preparation of an armed attack by Jose Pidal’s dog Espinosa.)
AnnaDeBrux – January 27, 2011 11:32 pm
Hey tongue, where have you been? Good to see you back?
Like that report of yours.
Anyway, just to say that what you said about Trillanes’ comportment in Congress has impressed me.
Am beginning to waylay my reservations about this young senator. And am frigging pleased that he’s going for the jugular.
Way to go Lieutenant! Make the foul-mouthed braggart Angie Reyes crawl!
saxnviolins – January 27, 2011 8:29 pm
Ombudsgirl na naman ang may jurisdiction diyan.
All the officials below the Ombudsgirl can be replaced by the President. Bakit papatay-patay? There is Emilio Gonzalez. Ano na ang nangyari diyan? There is the Specious Prosecutor. Lahat yan puwedeng tanggalin.
Once out, and replaced by good people (I hope), boxed out na ang Ombudsgirl. True, it is still the head that decides whether to prosecute or not. But if all the spadework is done below, when the charges are watered down, then there would be evidence of favorable treatment.
Ang tagal naman. For a guy who loves guns, mabagal pa sa sumpit ang action niton admin na ito.
Ellen,
may video po ba kayo dito sa internet sa hearing na yan? interesting kasi panoorin eh….thanks.
wow! buhay na naman ang tele nobela sa senado… at madami ng lumalabas na witness… sunod-sunod na yan… pati malamang yung kudeta kay Erap.. mabubuksan…
ano na nangyari sa truth commission? mukhang inip na din mga gustong mag witness ah… ang tagaaaaaall!!!
PNoy, palitan mo na buong legal team mo!
Mga unang salya pa lang yan ni Sen. Sonny! Sige, tuluyan na si Reyes, P50M pabaon lang yan how much pa was the dagdag for his withdrawal of support from Erap?
How many millions was the pabaon for Asspweron naman kaya? Isalang din sa hearing ang sekyu ni putot!
SNV, idol, the SPECIOUS PROSEC by the name of WENDELL BARRERAS-SULIT, is a bribe-driven lackey within the Tamodbayad. She is one of the rainmakers of The Merciless Goat!!! Yes take her out, isolate Goat, until she herself begs to be taken out!!!
Sulit na sulit si Goat kay Barreras-Sulit! Ngayon, is she positioning herself again to getting more moolah by declaring that they might reopen the Garcia probe so they can squeeze more shut-up money? Do you know the “net-worth” of Barreras-Sulit as of this moment? Mucho mucho dinero mi idolo!!!
BOX OUT THE GOAT!!! TAKE OUT SULIT AND THE OTHER LACKEYS!!!
(Jug, ser! Bulungan na si Prez Noy plis plis pliiiiiis!!!!)
Sana naman may mangyayari sa pag bunyag ni Rebusa. Puro kasi sa umpisa lang maingay pero ang ending, bokya. 🙁
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Ellen, That’s the funniest joke I heard in a long, long time !
#12 Mike
” Puro kasi sa umpisa lang maingay pero ang ending, bokya”
Korek! isang sunog lang ng isang biktima ng carnap o kaya isang sumabog na bomba,mawawala na naman ang istoryang ito! kaya heto, natutuwa na ang mga totoong salarin sa pagpatay kina Evangelist,sensil at Lozano…di kaya ang salarin sa karumal-dumal na pagpatat sa tatlo ay sila rin ang gumawa sa pagtanim ng AT1 mortar shell sa bus na sumabog sa EDSA?
Anyway, I hope that all these funny intermissions won’t waylay the plunder charge/plea bargain/shitting abouts by the office of the Ombudsman.
Must not forget that while all these sordid revelations are being made, Garcia and the office of the Ombudsman are having a field day…
But by gum, good that all these looting by military officials past and present are being exposed (and I mean PAST AND PRESENT military officials — top down and down top!!!!)
Okay ang paglutang ni Col. Rabusa sa Senado pero pagdating sa Ombudsman baka ma-absuelto silang lahat. Habang hawak ni Malditas G. ang Office of the Ombudsman walang mangyaring imbestigastion. Patalsikin muna ang aso ni Gloria Arroyo para umusad ang kaso.
Trillanes must go for the jugular of every goddamn military official PAST AND PRESENT!
Begin with the military and then target each agency one by one.
If he does that, then I’m prepared to join his campaign when he runs for president of the Philippines in 2016!!!
Target each and every government agency, hunt down the corrupt officials, investigate, indict and punish each goddamn corrupt culprit… and goddamn tax evader that the country ever produced and continues to produce!
Bravo for Heidi and Kudos to Trillanes!
(DOTC next — one of the MOST CORRUPT agencies of government!!!)
#19 AnnaDebrux
DOTC next — one of the MOST CORRUPT agencies of government!!!)
mas una pa yata ang BIR, lalo na sa mindanao…
Anna, I don’t know how they gauge which government agencies is the most corrupt. But one thing that I’m sure of, they are all the same when it comes to corruption. The only difference I guess is the amount.
Yep… amount alright Mike.
martinsampaga,
They’re all corrupt and yep, BIR (under Finance) must be ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT agencies. Customs too.
this is a battle of the generals… and lieutenant… 🙂
siguradong marami pa tayong pasabog na maririnig sa senado… pero ang mas nakakatakot.. huwag sanang umabot sa kalsada ang pasabog 🙁
#24 perl
“huwag sanang umabot sa kalsada ang pasabog”
inabot na nga pagsabog ng bus sa EDSA ang isyu tungkol sa mga kaso ng karumal-dumal na mga carjacking eh…hayun, unti unti ng natatabuman…kaya sana ito, huwag dapat…lets keep this story alive!
Tuwang tuwa talaga ako Tongue sa mga sagot si Trillanes. Supalpal si Reyes! It is like putting a fish in the ocean. Itong corruption na ito ang rason kaya nag-alsa ang mga sundalo. Trillianes knows this corruption damn well! Ngayon nga lang, hindi na haka haka dahil lahat ng paper trail eh nandyan na, unless yung ibang records eh nadukot na. If the price is right, something can be done.
Mabuti naman at itong si Rabusa eh lumantad. Siya yung small fry na kinasuhan ni maldita chedeng. Yung mga sugapa na heneral ni bansot nakawala! Nanginginig na ang mga heneral ni bansot! All of these generals should be lifestyle checked. Sonny, make sure you do this, will you?
In one of the cruises I took once, yung asawa ni Reyes eh katatapos lang din sa cuise kasama ang mga ibang asawa ng mga ibang generals at pamilya niya daw ( I did not have the exact number of people). Balita ko enjoy na enjoy sila sa cruise na yun. I wonder who paid their bill? Mine, inipon ko ng ilang taon…heh,heh,heh.
Things like these trips to Europe and the US and in the Bahamas should be investigated very well. Sana kunin ni Trillanes lahat itong mga records ng mga excessess ng mga general na ito pati ang mga properties nila in and out of the country. Isama na rin ang ranch ni Asspweron sa Australia. I wonder if this property is in his name o yung dummy niya.
Sonny, yung hindi ginagawa ni Honasan, gawin mo para sa mga susunod na henerasyon ng kasundaluhan. If you do this, maraming magpapasalamat sa iyo. For a long time all the generals worked for was the money, the “pabaon”. Wow! Yung tunay na retirement ng general ni hindi aabot ng 5 milyon! Yung Chief of Staff, naka jackpot! Kaya pala lahat ng humalik sa puwit ni bansot eh na-promote na Chief of Staff. Ilang Chief of Staff and na-promote sa panahon ni midget? Kung sampu, eh di half a billion na ang nawala! Plus whatever monthly money was given to them monthly. Aba eh di daig pa nila ang kita ng presidente!
Sana isunod na rin yong mga Euro-Generals.
#s 27,28,29 parasabayan,
kelangan na rin lumantad si Rabusa, kita naman natin sa lagay niya na parang muntikan ng pumanaw, kung ano mang dahilan kung bakit naka wheelchair na siya ngayon….this is his last chance ika nga para ma-ituwid ang mali, at umamin din naman siya na nakinabang din siya habang siya ay nasa pwesto…malaking tulong si Rabusa sa pagkakataon na maparusahan ang pinaka ulo sa lahat na iyan, si Angie Reyes..
talgang makakaladkad mga heneral ni gloria… talgang hindi sila titigilan ni at4, estrada…pati si miriam… hmmm… ano kaya masasabi ni joker?
#32 Perl
“ano kaya masasabi ni joker?’
magandang tanong, pero heto lang sagot kasi andyan na si AT4; “Corny’ di na siya joker…
kung kelan pa tumanda ang mga buwaya, ngayon lang din pala sila hahabolin ng mga krimen na ginawa nila….tingnan niyo si Rabusa, kung kelan muntik na mategok-ngayon lang din magsasalita sa kanyang alam….Maganda naman yung ginawa niya, at least bumabawi na siya sa mga maling nagawa niya bago siya matuloyan sa ano man yang nagpalagay sa kanya sa wheelchair!
Martin, you have to also put into considareation that during bansot’s time, her generals HAD ALL THE PROTECTION! Remember all the Executive Odders gagging all government officials from talking? Gustuhin man ni Rabusa magsalita noon, he will be so much against the “TIDE”. Now is the right time to talk. At least nagpapakatotoo siya ngayon. God bless him! Saludo ako sa kanya for coming out to tell the truth even this late.
PSB,
Very interesting inputs you have there. Which leads me to the truth commission that Aquino’s admin set up. If you think about it, despite or in spite of the bleeding useless commission, seems the willing can get to the bottom of all the corruption issues that’s plagued the nation since Gloria squatted in Malacanang.
And I am quite convinced that if our dutiful and honourable members of Congress can get all their acts together with the concurrence of our mighty and impressive people at the DoJ, there is every chance that all these investigations (which are sadly scattered) will lead to Gloria. Never mind that she’s a piggy backing bitch. It takes great political and judicial will but if right thinking officials of this govt persevered, there’s every chance this govt can finally hang Gloria Macapagal, the woman who perverted the institutions, may just be hanged from the highest lamp post.
Ano ang role ng resident COA auditor sa mga karakutan na iyan sa AFP? Bakit hindi niya nakita ang mga nakita ni Auditor Heidi, o baka kasama siya at ang mga boss niyq sa mga buwanang hatian? Hindi ba sabi ni Heidi ay sinabihan siya na go-slow sa kanyang report dahil ang mga boss niya ay nasa payroll din, kung baga? Dapat icheck din ang lifestyle nila at mga assets.
Paranaque Rep. Roilo Golez:
Rabusa’s bombshell revelations yesterday should be the basis for the following:
1. Plunder case against Angelo Reyes, Gen Ligot and Gen Garcia (additional in the case of Gen Garcia) for the more than P400 million Reyes allegedly received as Chief of Staff and the P50 million pabaon.
2. The BIR should immediately institute a tax evasion case against Reyes, and consider his AFPOVAI residence and restaurant investments and numerous foreign trips of his wife as among the evidences.
3. Reyes should publicly apologize to all AFP personnel for this raid on the AFP treasury as testified by Rabusa. With Rabusa’s credible revelations, Reyes has emerged as a candidate for the title of The Most Corrupt Chief of Staff in the history of the AFP.
Martina:
Just to give u a hint. Nothing ever happens without the knowledge of the resident COA Auditor. Nothing. *wink*
#35
tama ka rin pala PSB, na-realized ko din na lahat ng mga whistleblowers sa nakaraang nakaupong administrasyon ay lahat nilangaw pagkatapos ng iyakan kabilang si Jun Lozada na nangyari na akala nila’y magbabago na politika at mapalitan nila ang mga Pidal!
Angelo Reyes: Can I ask Col Rabusa, during the time that I was chief of staff, if I became greedy? Did I ask him for anything? Did I demand money from him, officially or unofficially?”
Jinggoy Estrada: This is not an issue of greed. The issue is if you were corrupt as chief of the Armed Forces. Who cares if you were generous?
Angelo Reyes: Did I ever interfere in the preparation and distribution of the “provisions for command-directed activities” fund?
George Rabusa:No, Sir, because you delegated the function to me and Gen. Ligot.
Ellen,
I don’t understand how these shitheads who robbed the AFP could still go around having a good time, their heads raised high… Why aren’t search warrants issued yet? Why haven’t the tax bureaus raided their residences yet? Why aren’t their bank accounts frozen? Why aren’t they pelted with bricks of shit yet? Why aren’t they in prison?
If this looting had happened where I sat, even a fraction of what Garcia had done, there would be no place in the world for them to hide. They would be hunted to the very end of the earth even if it took govt dozens of years to do that.
What are the justice and finance departments doing?
Will these revelations be swept under the rug, burried and forgotten again until a different news scandal breaks?
Until RP learns to hang corrupt bastards from the highest lamp post, this sort of thievery will be a way of life in RP. Pinas will become poorer and poorer in almost all aspects of life.
Agree however that he only thing the country cannot be poor in is in its ability to churn out Filipinos as fast as they are born to export them as modern day slaves abroad.
There are military officials everywhere in Asia who steal from military coffers but not quite as blatantly and as shamelessly as in the Philippines.
It is only in the Philippines where I see military officials rising to senior ranks who can send their children to expensive schools (with no debts to speak of), possess cars, live a high flying lifestyle, etc., on apparently the salary they make in the military.
Filipinos are smart so why can’t they just do the sums, you know, do some arithmetic. If they can’t provide the numbers, and the legal source of the numbers, then pounce on them.
I don’t know if raising the salary of members of the military to the level of corp executives will help curb this penchant for stealing. Maybe it’s in the character of Filipinos to be blown away by money when they see it, maybe not. But it’s time to kill corrupt officials (military and otherwise).
No wonder we cannot win the war against Joma’s troops and the Islamic fundamentalists in the south.
Our military officers are busy stealing!
Anna:
The shenanigans happened under Glo’s reign of greed. Do u think these generals are stupid enough to leave evidence of the paper trail? They had 9 years to cover their tracks. I just hope Rabusa was able to make photocopies of the conversions that he made to corroborate whatever evidence Heidi has in her possession. Otherwise, zero kaldero na naman tayo niyan. My gutfeel is that Rabusa was able to do so, thus his surprise appearance.
Statement of Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan:
Government must take the cue from Rabusa’s testimony and dig deeper.
If he is indeed telling the truth, his confession gives our investigators serious leads that if pursued may unearth more evidence to buttress his claims of plunder
Bank records must be subpoenaed and bank officials ought to cooperate or face criminal liability themselves for being in complicity with those who may have committed the crime of plunder.
The anti-money laundering council too must move quickly to look into these accounts and check if indeed they exist, or existed in the past. These are pieces of documentary evidence that are very difficult to disprove because authentic documents cannot lie.
Rabusa has given the government the lead; it is the government’s turn to unearth what has to be unearthed—even if it means generals past and present will now have to face the music.
Henry,
What’s paper trail got to do with arithmetic?
If out IRS and DoJ people are incorruptible, paper trail or no paper trail, they’ll be able to pin down looters, thieves, tax evaders, people hiding their illegally gotten wealth.
All they have to do is to examine their lifestyle. Aggressively pursue leads, etc., As I said, do the sums. Make life difficult for those who are suspected of illegally gotten wealth. Easy enough to do arithmetic. His life story or his lifestyle story can be itemised from the time he was born.
If Gen Kolokoy makes 500K a year but is known to own a house (whether in name of wife or kids) worth 5 million, sends 4 kiddies to Ateneo and to expensive schools doing law or medicine, owns 3 cars, is known to have a vacation home somewhere, is member of several golf clubs, etc., etc., easy enough to require him to show proof how these material things came into his possession. If he can’t supply the answers, then book him until he becomes transparent.
It’s done where I sit… Why can’t it be done there?
Look, for a miserable 15K Sterling Pounds worth of loot done by an MP here, the guy gets charged with corruption. And how did parliamentary auditors do that? By examining everything and anything with no let up.
Any fellow on govt payroll that’s suspected of stealing a dime from govt (OK am exaggerating here), is hounded with no let up.
All a question of perseverance and will. But of course if govt doesn’t have the will, well, Pinoys will continue shaking hands with looters and proud looters are their friends.
Check out how many television sets he’s got… the number of employees in his house, etc., etc.
A simple example of how to pin down tax evaders:
Where I sit, we pay TV tax, meaning you pay TV tax for every television set you own (otherwise how could govt broadcasting companies operate without funds). You are obligated by law to report the number of TV sets you have at home so you could be taxed accordingly. If an inspector comes and finds that you have not declared the number of television sets correctly and only pay for say, 1 when in fact you’ve got 3, you will be severely fined and that is retroactively.
And by gum, tax brigades here are relentless.
Problem with members of congress is they’re all blah, blah, blah…
Move quickly? I still have to see a govt official in RP move quickly! They talk slow and move slow, maybe because brain is slow… :-R
RP ranking 20th from the bottom, fighting neck on neck with Yemen and Burundi for the “honour” in Global Peace Index… Not surprising… people in govt and in the military are busy elsewhere, cheating and looting state coffers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2010/oct/26/corruption-index-2010-countries-world
Philippines scores 2.4 out of 10 and ranks among the lowest just slightly over Burma.
Anna @ #50:
“Move quickly? I still have to see a govt official in RP move quickly! They talk slow and move slow, maybe because brain is slow… ”
Correction Anna, they talk pretty fast actually. Really really fast when they want to earn some pogi points in front of the camera. But yes, you are correct that they move soooo sloooooow. Really really slooooow, so slow that it seems their butts are stuck or got stranded somewhere. 😛
Paahabol on # 53:
They have a unique kind of brains. It syncs pretty well with their mouths but doesn’t seem to work well with their butts. 😛
The recent events at the Senate is a high for me. I hope it lasts.
This time we have the Fearless One, Senator Trillanes, doing battle for us. And thanks to Senator Estrada, too.
I hope the present admin doesn’t get out-maneuvered again. The perimeter defenses of the past admin has been breached. The dragnet will soon have them within our grasp.
The Ombudswoman and her prosecutor cohorts and the Sandiganbayan and the Supreme Court had better smell the air. The hope and expectations of the public have been raised. I hate to see what would happen if this level of hope is dashed again to the ground.
“I’m trying to recall, hindi ko po talaga maalala ang specifics (but I really can’t remember the specifics),” – Ligot
Di mo maalala o ayaw mong maalala? 🙂
Dapat kaagad may hold departure order ang mga generals at ang mga malapit sa kanila. PRONTO! And seize their assets right away! Ang kaso, sa PI, the judiciary is too slooowww. Nawala na ang assets, nagiimbestiga pa kaya walang nahuhuli at nakukulong.
Anna, in the US it is the same thing. The corrupt are hounded until they leave their offices and give up what they stole. Meron pa ring mga nakakalusot but most of the time they are cornered. We have systems, guidelines and programs in place, any deviation triggers an audit.
For falsely claiming 14 thousand British Sterling Pounds in parliamentary expenses, “Former Labour MP Illsley is expected to become the second MP to be sent to prison when he is sentenced. He faces spending up to seven years in prison.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8255118/Eric-Illsley-to-quit-as-MP-following-expenses-conviction.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8281426/Lord-Taylor-found-guilty-of-fiddling-his-parliamentary-expenses.html
Lord Taylor, former Tory peer “falsely claimed more than £11,200 from the public purse after nominating a home outside London which he neither owned nor lived in as his main residence. He lived in west London.”
And for this, he faces 2 years in jail.
“Six more MPs are facing fraud investigations over their expense claims after one of their colleagues informed on them to the police, according to reports.
The allegations are said to relate to inflated claims for household expenditure such as council tax, maintenance and utility bills.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8262420/MP-reports-six-colleagues-to-police-over-expenses.html
Last Thursday, a French judge, suspected (just suspected) of corruption has been indicted and jailed while awaiting formal trial. He risks facing 10 years in prison and 150,000 euro fine if convicted..
The police began investigations after receiving anonymous tips about “highly questionable activities” of the judge.
http://www.skynet.be/actu-sports/actu/monde/detail_france-juge-soupconne-corruption-inculpe-incarcere?id=743209
The circus once again is in the spotlight; you would think Reyes will hit the slammer or Garcia going back to his laceless window. It’s the usual thieves probing the other thieves…such a big joke.
Corruption is not a Philippine monopoly — they happen everywhere in the world but by gum, the minute any public official is suspected of corruption, police is on to them like a ton of bricks and if investigations show that there are enough grounds to charge them, they hang them from the highest lamp post with no possible appeal!
The press starts hunting them without respite so that the public could nail could nail them to the gates of the nation’s capital.
Until the Philippines does the same, corruption will continue to plague the country.
Four hundred years ago, Europe was in the same situation; kings and princes were corrupt, those who ran the state in the name of a ruling monarch were horrendously corrupt. The clergy was corrupt. It took centuries of various forms of upheavals, infightings, wars, revolutions, tens of millions of people killed for Europe to get the level of “controllable” corruption that it is at today.
When will the Philippines start? 😀 Better start now… long way to go. 😛
Nasa Pilipinas ang kaso, let the PH system work
#56 Mike
“Ligot–Di mo maalala o ayaw mong maalala?”
kung ako siguro si Sen. Enrile, kung ganyan man lang sagot ma extract ko mula sa ky Ligot, eh talagang ipapa-recite ko sa kanyang buong multiplication table(1-10) at bigyan ko syang ng problem solving mula sa subject na calculus na gamit walang calculator! at pag di niya masagot, talagang tatawagin ko syang bobo, paano ka ba naka graduate sa PMA!? hahahha…joke lang mga kabayan..
Anna, so we still have about 300 years to go before we become Euro standard? 😛
#68
“about 300 years to go before we become Euro standard”
good question! sa tingin ko lang naman, parang zero-out-of-300years pa ang status natin, para makuha ang euro standard na sinasabi…
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 — that’s about it, Mike, maybe a bit longer because as you rightly pointed out, they moooooove rather sloooooooooooooooooow.
Mike,
The Philippines is exactly where say, Spain or Portugal was some 400 years ago; people in govt or those who were running the affairs for the monarch didn’t loot state coffers/tax money of just a few thousand bucks like the poor sod British member of Parliament did (and for which he’s sentenced to 7 years in prison) but of hundreds of millions. And that’s where you are at exactly in the Philippines!!!
Hahahahahahah!
Yung dating nakulong dahil sa corruption sa AFP tinatawag nila ngayong “Your Honor.”
Sila ngayon, ay “your horror.” Nyahahahahahaha!
Nagaalumpihit na mga pwet niyan sa pag sagot ng mga tanong. Sigurado bago pa man ang susunod na hearing, pinagpapawisan na ang mga iyan kahit wala pa sa loob ng bulwagan.
Way to go AT4!!!
Kung titingnan na mabuti, o “focus” ang picture sa itaas, “hagard-na-hagard” at mukhang di makaka-pagkatulog si Angie,karmado siya. Akala nya lahat ng baraha ay Alas. Ngayon, hawak na ni Sen. Sonny Trillanes at Jengoy. Di yata, nagbabasa sa PMA ang mga studyante, na, “History repeat itself “, also, crime doesn’t pay. Ngayon, maliligot o masisilo sila sa net ng dalawang senador. Malinaw na plunder, higit pa sa panahon ni Erap.
Kailangan lang, ihinto muna ang tugtuging Cha-Cha,Tango naman. Isunod na ang Ombudsman, para magkaliwanagan ng husto ang bulok na nakaraang halos 10-Taon.
Sana di maging ningas kugon itong usapin na ito, na nagpalumpo ki Juan de la Cruz.
68. Mike – January 28, 2011 4:39 pm
Anna, so we still have about 300 years to go before we become Euro standard?
69. martinsampaga – January 28, 2011 4:54 pm
#68
“about 300 years to go before we become Euro standard”
good question! sa tingin ko lang naman, parang zero-out-of-300years pa ang status natin, para makuha ang euro standard na sinasabi…
70. AnnaDeBrux – January 28, 2011 4:56 pm
— that’s about it, Mike, maybe a bit longer because as you rightly pointed out, they moooooove rather sloooooooooooooooooow
From HUMUS
I hope not and don’t think so. May be five and half years will shorten the enlightenment and reform into a few decades. P NOY can build a new prison in Iwahig or Culion. Put all those criminals mentioned in Ellen Blog behind bars. Start with those organic to Congress and the Judiciary and then the President’s turf.
Arrest the suspects first before even talking about the witness protection program. Continue with the rewards to catch the felons. Rewards is a way of just compensation for underpaid law enforcers.
As AdeB says (like an old good sounding record) of with the many heads of the hydra. Cut the heads and the bodies will die. Start with the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Thieves, then the uniformed forces, the crooked taipans. We don’t need the reign of terror, or Franco or El Duce. P NOY need not hurry as Monching Magsaysay did not: swift MASS ARREST just of the enemies of the people just HAPPENED. RM was only Sec of DND. P Noy is overwhelmingly mandated by his people. We have the benefit of the hindsight of history. We can do it FASTER.
TURN THE TABLES on them. How much rewards will each of these crooks will Ellen Bloggers suggest. Rewards for the arrest, impartial trial, and conviction of the corrupt during the last 10 years (that includes those of prior years who continued their corrupt activities; if they stopped they deserved to be excluded). If Ellen Bloggers are serious then they will set the rewards. WHERE will the rewards come from? SIMPLE from confiscated, garnished cash or properties of the convicted. REWARDS for family members: husband and wife and children should be bigger. IMPOSSIBLE? Not really. Peoples’ WILL is required to give the testicles to Political will.
From the news there are TRILLION of pesos stolen to make a kitty of sufficient rewards.
As AdeB says: Do the Math. DUMBO! Regarding the REWARDS, add all the moneys mentioned in newspapers: pesos, us dollars, euros? In Millions, billions? Just 50% constitute an attractive reward. Promoting anarchy? No. It’s better than yakking and YAKKING.
My apologies to AdeB. Yours is the sharpest sword. Nanghihiram lang naman. On a first day of PG studies in UK, we were told we have to pay tax for our transistor radios. Not paying the tax was tax evasion.
well, here something from the former Governor of California Arnie who is on the speaking tour and was here last night in Toronto…just some excerpt from his speech…
He said..that he will be entirely different in his tour than the two ex-presidents, Clinton and Bush since he is entirely different from the two.. the two had never been a body builder, never been a movie actor..most not one of them slept with a Kennedy nor danced with Danny de Vito, but he said they all leave office without money that is why they have to go on Speaking Tour and for $420 a pop on a sold out show the other night in a Big convention centre…Arnie might make more money in his tour than in his acting…
but Arnold even heard a place called the Philippines that Military Generals and Politicians leave Office without ever needing to earn a single peso for living???come on Arnie..not friend of Gloria or any of the Generals? Many of them have mansions in your State, you know…
Cannot remember daw sabi ni Reyes, as to receipt of the 50 million.
Some things are too big not to notice and fail to remember – an elephant in the room, Kim Kardashian’s derriere, or Peping Cojuangco’s mandible.
Tama si Jinggoy. Ikulong for contempt hanggang magtapat.
Reyes can deny, and that will not be a basis for contempt, because the truth of the denial will have to be proven or not in court. But once proven, then he can be cited for perjury. That is the reason why he has been advised to state that he cannot remember, probably by the Pidal lawyers.
The testimony of Rabusa, by the way, is similar to Chavit’s in the case of Erap. But Rabusa’s is more plausible, because he said the pesos were converted to dollars, because it would be too bulky. So the number of bills was divided by 45 or 50 (exchange rate). If Chavit’s testimony was sufficient to convict Erap, Rabusa’s should be more than enough to convict Angie Reyes.
Ang kulang lang diyan ay yung amateurish spreadsheet of Chavit, detailing payments.
“Tama si Jinggoy. Ikulong for contempt hanggang magtapat.”
Maganda palang tambalan si Sonny at Jinggoy sa Senado. 🙂
If I may recall, it was Sen, Jinggoy Estrada who sponsored Sen. Trillanes inclusion in the UNO senatorial ticket in the 2007 elections.
Habang nasa taxi ako kanina, broadcast sa radio ang Games of the Generals. Tuwang tuwa ang taxi driver habang binomba ng isang commentator ang mga heneral sa kanilang ginawang “pagnanakaw” sa pondo na dapat ay nakalaan sa mga pobreng sundalo. Dati raw siyang sundalo sabi ng taxi driver at nag-resign siya dahil lalong nagugutom ang kanyang pamilya dahil kahit allowance nila, hindi nakakarating sa tamang oras. Ang resulta, lubog sila sa utang samantalang ang mga hinayupak na mga heneral, mansion ang bahay sa Pinas at sa abroad, sandamakmak na sasakyan, after retirement, kakandidato na milyones o bilyones ang gastos. Saan nila kinukuha ang kanilang yaman? Himutok yan ng isang dating sundalo.
masarap isipin na makukulong sa wakas ang mga magnanakaw sa gobyerno… pero mahirap nga lang gawin hanggat andyan pa si Malditas… malapit na Feb 1 deadline ng house committe on justice sa SC para magbaba ng decision sa impeachment case ni Malditas…. i-impeach na yan! ang baaaaggaaaalll!!!
only in the philippines… always in the philippines… pero huwag naman sanang… forever in the philippines…
Oo nga pala noh, joeseg!
Bakit hindi isama sa multi-million pabaon investigation ang lahat ng COS before Angie? Based on info practice daw ang pabaon sa AFP chief kung mag-retire, so hindi lang si Angie ang dapat ipatawag baka mas malaki pa ang naipabaon kay Asspweron.
Sino nga ba’ng nagkwento sa akin nung mag-ninong sa kasal itong si Gringo sa Baguio ng anak ng isang taga Class ’71 din at katuwang nga e yung kaklaseng itong si Gen. Plunder Garcia? Basta ang istorya, pagkatapos ng dinner, nag-offer ng toast itong si Bigote para sa mga inaanak na nag-speech pang akala mo nasa plenaryo. Pagkatapos ng toast e humingi pa ng dasal para raw kay Garcia na hindi nakadalo dahil na nga nakakulong. Marami raw muntik masuka at gusto nang umuwi dahil nasira ang gabi nila.
Hindi ako nagtataka kung bakit tila malambot ang bossing ni Gringo na si Lolo Johnny kay Garcia nung hearing, bukod sa kaklase, kumpare pa pala ng bata niya.
Kaya Sonny, kalimutan ninyo na yang Moral Recovery na Gringo version. Mas kapani-paniwala siguro kung Trillanes version na lang. Mas buo ang paninindigan mo kesa sa idolo mong may lahi yatang pagka-traydor at baligtarin. Wala na siyang street credibility.
kaya heto na ang malungkot na istorya; laging sinasabi or reklamo ng karamihan, kung bakit surplus lang binibigay ng mga equipments ng mga kano sa AFP? kung saan naman pala,yung ibang mga spare parts ng mga eroplano ng Air force ay benebenta at pinagkakakitaan ng kanilang mga opisyales,kulang na nga sa mga gamit- “eh magawa pa nilang magdahilan na kulang sa pondo!”…Nung 2009, kung di pa nangyari ang maguindanao massacre-di sana natin matuklasan ang karamihan na mga armas ng mga Ampatuan ay mula mismo sa Department of Defense,makabago ang mga armas ng mga Ampatuan-pero mga sundalo mismo ng army,eh mga lumang m16 na mas matanda pa sa gumagamit…..
Manay Chi, sa pagbubusa (crying out) ni Rabusa, lagot pati si Ligot!
Ngayong malinaw na na ang malaking source ng pondong pambulsa ng mga heneral ang “ceiling” vs. “filled” dapat nang ipatigil ni Noynoy yang practice na pagre-release ng budget na pangsweldo na nakabase sa ceiling at hindi sa aktuwal ng bilang ng mga sundalo. Tignan mo naman, idedeklara sa GAA budget ng AFP ang pansweldo para sa 120,000 na sundalo tapos 100,000 lang naman pala halimbawa ang totoong bilang, diretso na sa katayan yung sweldo ng 20,000 na overstated sa budget. Sabihin mo na lang na P8,000 ang average monthly salary ng mga sundalo, P160M ang pinaglalaruan nila sa J1 KADA BUWAN!
Nung araw J1 to J4 lang. Ngayon hanggang J11 na yata, jusme, mas maraming buwaya ang dapat patabain!
Kaya sabi ni Rabusa, nagrequest siyang mag-open ng account sa bangko dahil yung MGA VAULT (ibig sabihin, maraming vault) niya sa opisina, apaw na sa cash.
#88
“Kaya sabi ni Rabusa, nagrequest siyang mag-open ng account sa bangko dahil yung MGA VAULT (ibig sabihin, maraming vault) niya sa opisina, apaw na sa cash.”
kaya nga sabi ni Col. Rabusa, kelangan pa nila palitan ng dollars para di masyado maapaw…ehhehhe
mas masiba pa pala sa mga buwaya sa GOCC yung mga animal na yan sa AFP. O eto list ng mga naging CS-AFP sa panahon ni gloria. sabi ni Gen mabanta, natigil na ang pabaon system noong 2004 (naiba lang ang syle)…
Sabi ni Rabusa, hindi naman automatic ang pabaon sa mga CS-AFP… so sino kaya hindi nakinabang, si defensor? kaya siguro galit din si Miriam kay Angelo Reyes…
General Angelo Reyes, PA 2000-2001
General Diomedio Villanueva, PA
General Roy Cimatu, PA
General Benjamin Defensor, PAF
General Dionisio Santiago, PA Nov 2002-April 2003
General Narciso Abaya, PA April 2003 – Oct 2004
General Efren Abu, PA Oct 2004 – Aug 2005
General Generoso Senga, PA
General Hemergenes Esperon, PA 2008 end
General Alexander Yano, PA
General Victor Ibrado, PA
General Delfin N. Bangit, PA
hindi pwdeng kaladkarin si esperon sa senate hearing… kongresista kasi yang mokong sa 6th district ng Pangasinan…
grabeng pasabog to… no choice na si PNoy kundi umaksyon at magpakita ng magandang resulta… dapat may makulong… kapag hindi, naku! siguradong magrerebelde ang mga kasundaluhan…
Kaya naman pala nag coup d’ etat noong 20o1 eh! Talagang pera-pera lang din ang dahilan!
Nagkaroon tuloy ng Gloriang pinaka-corrupt sa lahat!
91. perl – January 29, 2011 1:02 am
hindi pwdeng kaladkarin si esperon sa senate hearing… kongresista kasi yang mokong sa 6th district ng Pangasinan…
Panala ba si Asspwe?? Think he lost.
#90
General Angelo Reyes, PA 2000-2001
General Diomedio Villanueva, PA
General Roy Cimatu, PA
General Benjamin Defensor, PAF
General Dionisio Santiago, PA Nov 2002-April 2003
General Narciso Abaya, PA April 2003 – Oct 2004
General Efren Abu, PA Oct 2004 – Aug 2005
General Generoso Senga, PA
General Hemergenes Esperon, PA 2008 end
General Alexander Yano, PA
General Victor Ibrado, PA
General Delfin N. Bangit, PA
ang pinaka disgrasyado lang sa kanilang lahat,ay yan si Delfing Bangit…pero palagay, baka naman bumawi ito at siya pinakamalaking “send-off”,siya kasi yung napahiya eh!ikaw ba naman sinupal-pal after 4 months palang bilang CSAFP hahahhaa
#94, ay oo, talo si esperon! thanks! okay, okay.. pwde na din sya kaladkarin.. 🙂
Yung tiyo ni Pareng Cocoy na si Ebdane is not listed….ang yaman yaman, binoto pang Governor. Kiss ass lang si AssPwe, he didn’t have a department where there was million to kurakot…lol.
akala siguro ni angie reyes, untouchable sya… sa daming senador na galit sa kanya… yang pabaon ang malamang magbabaon sa kanya!
si Leandro Mendoza, siguradong malaki din ang nakurakot non sa DOTC!
Perl, natalo si asspweron sa politics. Inspite of his paying evryone BIG cash, cellphones and even paying homeowners to put his humongus tarpoulines, NATALOI pa rin siya!
Connecting the dots. Natumbok ang dot (nunal) ni Gloria sa mukha. 😛
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20110129-317234/Ex-colonel-to-link-GMA
Ayaw ng SC ang Truth Commission? Buweno, si Trillianes na lang ang papalit to uncover the truth. It is too bad that legislation lang ang kaya ng senado. It is just as bad that the Ombudsman, the one to run after these crooks is the PROTECTOR of the bansot and her cronies. PI is so unlucky too that the SC which is the final stop for justice has so far shown that they are not for the uncovering of the TRUTH. But the people are watching and even if all these supposed justices are not doing their jobs, we the people know tha glaring truth. May araw din ang mga hindi gumagawa ng tama.
AFP Chiefs of Staff from February 1986 to present
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:49:00 01/29/2011
Gen. Fidel Ramos, PC/PA (February 1986 to January 1988)
Gen. Renato De Villa, PC (January 1988 to January 1991)
Gen. Rodolfo Biazon, PMC (January 1991 to April 1991)
Gen. Lisandro Abadia, PA (April 1991 to April 1994)
Comptroller Brig. Gen. Jose Ramiscal Jr.
Gen. Arturo Enrile, PA (April 1994 to November 1996)
Comptroller Brig. Gen. Jose Ramiscal Jr.
Gen. Arnulfo Acedera, PAF (November 1996 to December 1997)
Gen. Clemente Mariano, PA (December 1997 to July 1998)
Gen. Joselin Nazareno, PA (July 1998 to July 1999)
Gen. Angelo Reyes, PA (July 1999 to March 2001)
Comptroller Maj. Gen. Jacinto Ligot
Gen. Diomedio Villanueva, PA (March 2001 to May 2002)
Comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia
Gen. Roy Cimatu, PA (May 2002 to September 2002)
Comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia
Gen. Benjamin Defensor, PAF (September 2002 to November 2002)
Comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia
Gen. Dionisio Santiago, PA (November 2002 to April 2003)
Comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia
Gen. Narciso Abaya, PA (April 2003 to October 2004)
Gen. Efren Abu, PA (October 2004 to August 2005)
Gen. Generoso Senga, PA (August 2005 to July 2006)
Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., PA (July 2006 to May 2008)
Gen. Alexander Yano, PA (May 2008 to May 2009)
Gen. Victor Ibrado, PA (May 2009 to March 2010)
Gen. Delfin N. Bangit, PA (March 2010 to June 2010)
Lt. Gen. Nestor Ochoa, PA (Acting Capacity) (June 2010 to July 2010)
Gen. Ricardo David, PA (July 2010 to present)
jose ramiscal, jr.:
http://www.i-site.ph/Record/FFFC-Report/FactFinding%20AO78%20Report%20-%20Part%202.PDF
Blessing in disguise. Iyan tuloy ang napala nila sa defective plea bargaining ni Garcia, sumingaw at sumabog at nakaladkad ang mga kurakot. Tahimik na sana itong isyung kung walang plea bargaining. Siguro nagpupuyos ng galit ngayon si Gen. Reyes at ni Gen. Limot kay Garcia.
Sampung milyon isang buwan kay Gen. Reyes,sarap ng buhay, kaya pala pinipilit ni Reyes na maging Tongressman ng I-Utak para mayroon siyang safe haven.Oo nga, kapag naging Tongressman siya ay di nila siya makaladkad sa senate inquiry dahil napatawad na siya ng taong bayan sa mga kasalanan niya sa madlang pipol sa pagboto sa kanya…
Bumawi ka na ng husto Sen. Trillanes,kaladkarin mo ang lahat ng kurakot sa senate hearing…Ipagpatuloy mo lang iyan Sen. Jingoy at magiging presidente ka ng Pilipinas.
Pareng Trublue,
Hindi ko uncle si Ebdane,nagkataon lang na pareho kami ng middle name at relatives daw kami,”Sabi Da”.Wala akong pakialam doon. Kung mayamn man siya hindi naman niya ako aambunan.Kahit na nga utol kung mayaman hindi niya ako binibigyan..Nagrerecycle ako ng soda cans at empty water bottle pambili ng lotto..Hehehehehe!
Pulitika lang daw iyan sabi ng abugado ni Reyes,dahil iyung lawyer ni Rabusa at Jingoy ay iisa.–Oww! Talaga!! Ano naman ang kinalaman ng pulitika sa corruption?
Pero sabi ng magbabalot na suki ko kaya raw kumanta ng obladi-Oblada si rabusa dahil binalewala nila siya at naging gahaman si Garcia, Reyes at Limot,sensilyo lang ang ibinibigay sa kanya at 200m lang ang napunta sa kanya,dahil sa sama ng loob ni Rabusa na stroke.
Iyan tuloy dapat pare-pareho sila ng tuno ng DO-RI-Mi para walang sintunado.
40M isang buwan, sampu kay Reyes,saan naman napunta ang trenta?
Sabi naman ni Col.Querubin, iyun daw bota ng mga tauhan niya isang suot butas na agad at hindi nila mabitunan. Mas matibay pa yata ang condom sa bota nila.
Iyung sampung milyon isang buwan kaya ng suplayan ng bota ang isang battalion at may kasama na ng medyas.
Ipagpatuloy mo lang iyan Sen. Jingoy at magiging presidente ka ng Pilipinas. -cocoy
inpernes… medyo napapahanga na ko ni jinggoy, lampan-ngengot kasi yan noong nakaraan adminisrasyon… siguro dahil hawak pa sya at ang tatay nya sa leeg ni bansot kaya hindi maka porma… kumukuha lang pala ng timing…
mukhang madaming magiging presidentiables sa 2016 ah, hehehe…
ang kongresista… hindi pwde makaladkad sa senate inquiry… ano ba tawag nila don.. courtesy ba yun? sa kapwa magnanakaw… este mambabatas..
5M lang daw kay reyes o sa chief of staff…
Rabusa, who was called to the Senate inquiry by Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, said chiefs of staff also get around P10 million monthly while in service, half of which supposedly goes to their pockets.
hehe, sa dami ng kalat na ginawa nila… hindi nila nalinis lahat… kala nila wala ng tetestigo.. si Heidi Mendoza kala ko bigtime witness na… e mass bigatin pala tong si Rabusa…
mabuti pa yung naka wheel chair… matandain… yung may mga milyones… biglang inatake ng Alzheimer’s disease…
Battle of the Bulge? palakihan ng laman sa bulsa, sa banko (Swiss Banks,)etc.
Bomba talaga ang isiniwalat niya. Hindi nakapagtataka na may mga sundalo talaga na nag aaklas laban sa gobyerno. Ang yaman yaman na ni Angelo Reyes. Kawawang mga sundalo. Kapag may giyera at sila ang nagwagi ang credit ay sa General, hindi sa kanila na lumalaban. Busog pa ang mga General sa mga binibigay na pera. Kaya siya sumuporta para mapatalsik si Erap para lalo siyang magkapera pa.
Ang mga ganyan na tao na corrupt iyan dapat ang pinapatay ng mga NPA. Dapat magkaroon ng isang tao na ang papatayin talaga mga corrupt.
@ arvin95,kapareho ng kulay nina Reyes, Garcia at Limot iyang mga NPA.Nandiyan pa ang mga NPA dahil mayroon pa silang nakokolekta na “Revo Tax” Hindi ko alam kung ano ang ipinaglalaban nila.
Iyung 50m na pabaon kay Reyes malaki na ang maitutulong noon sa mga foot soldiers natin. siguro kaya siya bumaligtad kay Erap noong Edsa Dos dahil nadispalko niya ang mahigit 1B pesos na bigay sa kanya ni Erap sa all out war in Mindanao, takot siya kay Erap baka gawin siyang punching bag.
It is so easy to spot if Angelo Reyes is lying. Just count his eye-blinks per minute. It’s a dead give-away. His eyes don’t lie.
Now the problem here is how would u prosecute these scalawags with the same justice system in place??? They are of the same clothings.
Joeseg, re #80, it was JV Ejercito who helped lobby for the inclusion of Trillanes in the opposition slate in 2007.
Tru-blue, re #97, Ebdane is Philippine National Police. Baka iba ang listahan nun. Aside from PNP, Ebdane was also Public Works Secretary, another lucrative post.
Yung sampung Chief of Staff (O Cheat of Staff) ni bansot kung nakatanggap ng tig-10 million bawat buwan for nine yrs eh isang bilyon mahigit na yun. Eh yung 50 million each pa na pabaon? Kalating bilyon di yun! Itong mga perang ito eh galing sa kaban ng bayan. Eh yung galing pa sa mga suppliers? Juice ko po! Pwede ng magtayo ng Generals Inc!
Generals pa lang ito. Eh yung mas matataas pa ang pwesto? No wonder the Philippines is in the condition it is in. Sobra sobra ang corruption!
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“Ang mga ganyan na tao na corrupt iyan dapat ang pinapatay ng mga NPA.”
Mali yata … dapat pa nga magpasalamat sila(NPA) dahil hindi nabibigyan ng tamang gamit ang mga kasundaluhan.
When there is collusion,the loopholes get even bigger..and that what was happening in the AFP and in other Agencies…collusion, and don’t tell us that no members of the COA were also involved in the collusion…
Vic, Heidi Mercado, the state auditor who testified on Garcia said she was told that five of her bosses were in the payroll of Garcia.
That’s mentioned here: http://www.ellentordesillas.com/?p=14857
It is so easy to spot if Angelo Reyes is lying. Just count his eye-blinks per minute. It’s a dead give-away. His eyes don’t lie. – Phil
Napansin mo rin ba’ng hindi sabay ang pagpikit ng kaliwa sa kanang mata? Lol. Konti na lang mai-istroke na yun.
It is so easy to spot if Angelo Reyes is lying. Just count his eye-blinks per minute. It’s a dead give-away. His eyes don’t lie. – Phil
Napansin mo rin ba’ng hindi sabay ang pagpikit ng kaliwa sa kanang mata? Lol. Konti na lang mai-istroke na yun.
cocoy, (re #107) yung 40M sa buong AFP yun, pero discretion rin ng CSAFP. 10M hiwalay pa para kay Reyes at opisina niya. Wala raw kasing item yon sa annual General Appropriations Act.
Maliwanag pa kesa jingle ng bagong panganak, plunder ito! Mapupuno pihado ang V. Luna sa dami ng Hospital Arrest inmates. Baka magtayo na lang sila ng structure sa Aguinaldo Driving Range.
Ellen,
One of the poeple Congress must subpoena as resource person is Boygee Pangilinan. Boygee worked with Boy Enrile as exec asst (when latter was CGPA and later on as CSAFP) and used to handle suitcases of crisp dollar bills (and I mean suitcases!)
Boygee is also one of the military experts in “PRODUCE!” exercise… 😉
“It is so easy to spot if Angelo Reyes is lying. Just count his eye-blinks per minute. It’s a dead give-away. His eyes don’t lie.” – pc
Huh! Are you sure? Thought he was just “nag bibibyutipol eyes” to the senators. Mapungay lang mata ni heneral.
Hindi ako naniniwala sa narinig ko kanina sa radio na ang meaning ngayon ng PMA ay Philippine Monetary Academy.
Now, I understand why Gloria “putot” Arroyo erased the death penalty sa atin…she would have been the first victim…ang galing talaga…
Siguro naman ay alam ito ni Sen. Honasan at Enrile. Si Pong Biazon alam din siguro ito. I miss my man Ping.
Nagsalita na si Biazon. Sa panahon daw niya, umutang pa nga daw siya ng 100,000 para magpatayo siya ng maliit niyang bahay dahil wala daw silang “pabaon” system noon.
Honasan does not care. Matagal ng hindi. He is just for himself simula nung nahuli siya ni bansot.
“Nagsalita na si Biazon. Sa panahon daw niya, umutang pa nga daw siya ng 100,000 para magpatayo siya ng maliit niyang bahay dahil wala daw silang “pabaon” system noon.” – psb
Meaning pag me pabaon pala noon, eh palasyo din ang bahay ni marino,
ang sakit na “amnesia” is spreading sa atin…maraming nakakalimot kung ano ang nangyayari sa mga office nila..”I am sorry I don’t remember” seems to be the line…napalitan na ang linya na “I am sorry…it is an error of judgment.”
Reklamo ni Sen. Biazon ngayon kung puwede niyang mabawi o makuha ang kanyang pabaon na hindi ibinigay sa kanya noon. Di na kailangan, Sir. Kumita ka na rin sa Senado at ngayon naman sa Kongreso.