THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the Ombudsman ruling finding former Social Security System president Romulo Neri guilty of misconduct in connection with the aborted $329-million national broadband network deal with ZTE Corp. of China.

In a 12-page decision penned by Justice Edwin Sorongon and concurred in by Justices Hakim Abdulwahid and Marlene Gonzales-Sison, the CA’s Sixth Division held that the Office of the Ombudsman was right in handing down a guilty verdict on Neri on the questioned resolution as it denied the petition for review filed by the former SSS head.

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