State prosecutors have formally charged former Tuguegarao City Vice Mayor Danilo Baccay before the Sandiganbayan for failing to liquidate his P400,000 cash advance in April 2009.
The Ombudsman鈥檚 Office of the Special Prosecutor filed one count of violation of Article 218 of the Revised Penal Code over Baccay鈥檚 failure to render accounts.
According to the case information, Baccay had received P400,000 for the codification of Tuguegarao City ordinances. The cash advance was made through a Land Bank of the Philippines check from former city council legislative staff officer Christopher Samonte.
Prosecutors said Baccay 鈥渄id then and there willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously fail to render an account within the prescribed period鈥� set by Commission on Audit Circular No. 97-002, dated Feb. 10, 1997.
Prosecutors recommended that bail be fixed at P6,000. Baccay is currently serving as city councilor. RAM
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