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August 23, 2007 

Palace sacks Intramuros Administrator, Labor Relations Commissioner 

Malacanang again dismissed two more high-ranking presidential appointees for graft and corruption. 

Acting on the recommendations of the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC), Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita signed, in behalf of the President, the dismissal from government service of Intramuros Administrator Dominador C. Ferrer and Commissioner Victoriano Calaycay of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) last August 13 and July 10, respectively. 

PAGC recommended the dismissal from service of Ferrer for gross neglect of duty, causing undue injury and entering into a contract grossly disadvantageous to the government, without public bidding, and despite an existing contract for the management of pay parking services in Intramuros. 

PAGC’s Investigation revealed that, on March 22, 2004, Ferrer and the contractor, R.R. Alberto Construction entered into a pay parking management services. Barely a month after the execution of the contract, the contractor asked for a 3-month decrease of 50% on the Intramuros Administration’s share. Later, the contractor abandoned its request and instead requested for a re-study of the number of parking slots in order to reduce the contract price. 

Ferrer approved the contractor’s request by entering into a new pay parking management contract effective May 3, 2004, only a few months after the effectivity of the original contract, with practically the same premises and contractual provisions except for the reduced of contract price to Php5, 973,000.00, a big decrease from the original contract price of Php11,467,500.00. OP agreed with PAGC’s conclusion that the contract revision was premeditated.  

On the other hand, the palace also upheld PAGC’s recommendation to dismiss Calaycay who was caught in an entrapment operation conducted by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in December 2006. Evidence on record revealed that Calaycay and his accomplices extorted from a certain Jocelyn Enriquez an amount of Php 400,000.00 as a payment for their facilitating of her license to operate a recruitment agency. 

Enriquez sought the assistance of NBI who then entrapped Calaycay, together with Zomer A. Ochavillo, Attorney V, and Augustus A. Hidalgo, Attorney II, both of Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), and Dennis T. Gabionza, a private individual at the coffee shop of the Century Park Hotel at 8:20 on the evening of December 1, 2006. 

During the operation, Enriquez, handed marked money worth Php 200,000.00 to Calaycay and passed it on to Gabionza where it was recovered. Both were found positive of fluorescent powder specks and smudges. 

As for Hidalgo, PAGC probers found that he indeed conspired with Calaycay. Hence, OP ordered his dismissal while no administrative penalty was recommended against Ochavillo for insufficiency of evidence and Gabionza who is a private individual. 

Aside from dismissal from service, Ferrer and Calaycay were also slapped with accessory penalties including cancellation of civil service eligibility, forfeiture of leave credits and retirement benefits and disqualification from holding public office. #

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