THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed an Ombudsman decision dismissing a ranking officer of the Department of Agriculture (DA) for serious dishonesty in connection with the fertilizer scam in 2004.

In a 17-page decision penned by Associate Justice Noel Tijam and concurred in by Associate Justices Francisco Acosta and Eduardo Peralta Jr., the CA’s Fourth Division dismissed the petition for certiorari filed by Joel S. Rudinas, Director III of the DA-Regional Field Unit (DA-RFU-X).

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