Court convicts four over ghost deliveries

A former Department of Transportation and Communications’ (DOTC) official, a former Isabela mayor, a former state school president, and a private individual are facing imprisonment over ghost deliveries of 21 government vehicles bought with a late lawmaker’s pork barrel allocation in 2003.

In a 64-page ruling, the Sandiganbayan’s First Division convicted former director Venancio Santidad of the DOTC Procurement, Supply and Property Management Service of 21 counts of reckless imprudence resulting to falsification of public documents and sentenced him to four months up to two years imprisonment for each count.