COA suspends Cagayan de Oro auditor for DENR-funded audit ‘fieldwork’

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COA downgrades the case to simple misconduct from serious dishonesty, grave misconduct, falsification of official documents, and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (COA) has found one of its own guilty of misconduct and suspended an auditor for going on scuba diving lessons and resort trips in Mindanao and Palawan courtesy of the very agency she was supposed to be auditing: the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Northern Mindanao.