Governor charged for thirty three counts of estafa

March 3 2008 the provincial prosecutor of Mountain province Moises c. Ayochoc endorsed to the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon a case record of a case of Estafa Thru Falsification of Public Commercial Documents 33 counts under Article 315 in relation to paragraph 4 and 6 of article 171 of the revised penal code and violation of paragraph c. section 4 of R.A. No. 6713 against the incumbent Governor Maximo Dalog of Mountain Province and several accomplices. This complaint was filed by Harry C. Dominguez by submitting tons of documents to validate his claim. The case was docketed as OMB-LC07-0119-A AND OMB-L-C-07-0120-A. The Ombudsman made an order last March 9 2007 addressed to the governor and others listed to answer within 10 days from the receipt of the complaint. Yet, the lingering issue that haunts every tax payer and concerned citizen is the very long time the Anti-Graft Bodies should dispose these cases stack piled in their offices. This case arose from a fictitious sale of an over priced ambulance by a private person who is not engage in the business of supplying vehicles much more so with ambulances to the provincial government of Mountain Province. That provincial funds was used to pay the ambulance in question with the approval of the governor himself.Now,there are rumors that if you want your case to stay forever at the office of the concerned agency you just pay them and your case will be placed at the bottom of a huge pile of cases scheduled for investigation. They say that if you pay more, your case goes to lowest of the piles, so that the scheduling is indefinite. These allegation hopefully does not hold water but it seems its the other way around because the governor is still in office continuing his practices.