CA upholds dismissal of Pampanga employee

THE Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld a decision of the Office of the Ombudsman dismissing a government employee from service for forging the signature of then municipal mayor Josefina Leoncio of Sasmuan, Pampanga in 2010.

In an eight-page decision penned by Associate Justice Franchito Diamante and concurred by Associate Justices Japar Dimaampao and Carmelita Salandanan Manahan, the CA’s Eighth Division denied the petition for review filed by Ricardo Turla as it affirmed the April 27, 2012 and October 30, 2014 rulings of the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon.