Basis found to charge ex-mayor with graft

The Office of the Ombudsman has found basis to file charges of graft and of breach of conduct against former Mayor Francisco Nazareno of Moises Padilla town in Negros Occidental.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the office said investigators from its Field Investigation Unit in Iloilo City “found that Nazareno” allegedly “failed to disclose two business interests in his Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) from 2007 to 2010.”