Ombudsman welcomes DMW’s bid to appeal Ignacio’s junked plunder case

Former OWWA Administrator Arnell Ignacio —Screengrab from RTVM / Facebook

MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Ombudsman on Thursday said they welcome the Department of Migrant Workers’ (DMW) seeking to appeal the dismissed plunder, graft, and malversation of public funds complaint against former Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator Arnaldo A. “Arnell” Ignacio.

DMW chief Hans Cacdac said the antigraft body has dismissed the cases against Ignacio, former OWWA officials and the private sellers who were involved in alleged anomalies in a P1.4 billion worth of property acquisition.

“What we plan to do is to file a Motion for Reconsideration (MR) because, in our view, the Resolution did not pass upon details that we submitted to the honorable Office of the Ombudsman,” Cacdac said in a statement over the weekend.

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