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MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed the plunder, graft, and malversation complaints filed against Executive Secretary Ralph Recto and former Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Ledesma.
In a consolidated resolution dated June 2 and furnished to the media on Tuesday, the antigraft body dismissed the criminal complaints stemming from Recto’s order, when he was the Department of Finance (DOF) chief, to transfer PhilHealth’s unused funds amounting to ₱60 billion to the national treasury in line with a special provision of the 2024 budget.
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“This Office resolves to dismiss the criminal and administrative complaints against respondents for lack of prima facie evidence with reasonable certainty of conviction and insufficiency of evidence, respectively,” the 40-page resolution read.
