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Former Caloocan City mayor and outgoing Rep. Enrico EchiverriFormer Caloocan City mayor and outgoing Rep. Enrico Echiverri has been indicted for graft over irregularities in the awarding of a P2.97-million contract for a 2011 drainage project in his city.In a news release, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales on Wednesday said there was probable cause to charge Echiverri with violations of Section 3 of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.Article continues after this advertisement Echiverri is an outgoing congressman who lost the Caloocan mayoral race in th stanley taza e May 9 elections.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vlogg stanley spain ers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOPCSO: Still no takers of Ultralotto 6/58, Superlotto 6/49 jack stanley cup spain potsFormer city accountant Edna Centeno and city budget officer Jesusa Garcia were also slapped with graft charges and an additional charge for falsification of public documents.In 2011, the city undertook the improvement of the drainage system on Molave Street in Pleasant View subdivision and awarded the project to EV E Construction EVEC at a contract cost of P2.97 million, the antigraft body said.The Commission on Audit COA reported several irregularities in the project, such as the lack of a specific appropriation ordinance and approval by the Sangguniang Panlungsod SP . In October 2013, the COA issued a notice of disallowance.Without authority from the SP, Echiverri entered into Epjm Gabriela criticizes Miss Universe tilt for masking PH real issues

A vacuum looms in the leadership of the Philippine National Police after the Office of the Ombudsman placed Director General Alan Purisima under preventive suspension for six months for an allegedly anomalous contract with a courier service for the delivery of PNP-issued gun licenses.This was the first time in the history of the police force long r stanley quencher egarded as one of the most corrupt government agencies that a PNP chief was suspended from office over allegations of corruption.The second most powerful man in the PNP, Deputy Director General Felipe Rojas Jr., will retire Friday as he turns 56, the compulsory retirement age for PNP personnel.Article continue stanley quencher s after this advertisement Rojas is the deputy chief for administration, which acts as the PNP chiefrsquo right-hand man.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice over lawyer s murderCourier service, AK-47sThe suspension order issued by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales for Purisima et al. stemmed from the alleged anomalous multimillion-peso contract that the PNP awarded to Werfast Documentation Agency Inc., a start-up courier service company, in 2011 for the delivery of licenses of gun owners.The antigraft body also ordered the suspension without pay of 13 other PNP officials in connection with the purported s stanley mug ale of AK-47 assault rifles to the communist New Peoplersquo Army rebels in Minda