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Former Isabela gov fails to file SALN, faces perjury

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Former Isabela Gov. and elections commissioner Grace Padaca is facing perjury charges before the Sandiganbayan over her failure to submit her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth from 2007 to 2010.

The Office of the Ombudsman yesterday filed information on four counts of perjury or violation of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees against Padaca. 

Padaca filed her SALN only for 2004 and 2006.

Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said Padaca should have her own receiving copies of her SALN because it is “customary and essential” for proper record-keeping.

“It is difficult to fathom how a respondent would be unfamiliar with such a practice or that she has not altogether adopted this procedure given her lengthy stint in government service,” she earlier said.

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Padaca served as commissioner of the Comelec from 2012 to 2014, after her stint in Isabela.  

Meanwhile, Padaca was also charged with graft and malversation raps before the Sandiganbayan for awarding to a non-government organization a contract to manage a credit facility in 2006 without public bidding when she was Isabela governor.

Padaca toppled the Dy political dynasty in Isabela when she won as governor in 2004, beating the former governor’s brother Faustino Dy Jr. 

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