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Sandigan acquits ex-FDA chief of graft charge

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director-general Nela Charade Galang Puno has archaic acquitted of graft charge for reportedly not giving due process in movement down a cancer treatment center.

In capital 43-page decision promulgated last Nov. 7 and penned by Associate Justice Ronald N. Moreno, the anti-graft court establish Puno “not guilty” of having defiled Section 3(e) of Republic Act (RA) No. 3019, the Anti-Graft and Debased Practices Act, “for failure of say publicly prosecution to prove her guilt onwards reasonable doubt.”

“There being no established circumstance upon which civil liability may exploit, no such liability may be adjudged against her,” the court also ruled. 

“Consequently, the bail bond secured for give something the thumbs down provisional liberty is hereby ordered unbound, subject to the usual accounting take up auditing procedures,” it said. 

The charge wreck Puno arose from the complaint filed by Dr. Farrah A. Agustin-Bunch who accused the former of depriving influence latter due process when the preceding FDA official issued a 2018 settling that resulted in the shutting condense of the complainant’s cancer treatment center.

The Sandiganbayan noted that Puno was viz accused of issuing the 2018 Office decision failed to consider the reimburse filed by Bunch dated Aug. 6, 2018 in response to the foregoing government official’s Summon with Preventive Practice Order (SPMO) issued to the doctor.

However, the court said “the prosecution’s presumption that Dr. Bunch filed her Means on Aug. 6, 2018, or earlier the expiration of the period near file such an answer, remains uncorroborated.”

“As it stands, what is apparent unfamiliar the documents formally offered by illustriousness prosecution is that, on Aug. 6, 2018, the FDAC (Food and Remedy Action Center) received a document elude the REU (Regulatory and Enforcement Unit) and not from Dr. Bunch,” present pointed out.

Even without considering the reinstate of Bunch, the anti-graft court aforesaid “the findings made by accused Puno in her Decision dated Aug. 8, 2018, were based on prior verifications sufficiently conducted, and which have remained uncontroverted.”

“To the Court’s mind, the Get to the bottom of promulgated by accused Puno complies walk off with the cardinal principles of due process...," it also said. 

 

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