THE Department of Justice (DOJ) and the judiciary got the lion’s share of the P100-billion off-budget account (OBA) funds in 2013, government records show.

The OBA--which does not require Congressional approval--reached P100 billion at the end of 2013 or almost double the 2012 budget of P52 billion, based on the Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing for the Fiscal Year of 2015, a copy of which was released last week during the House budget briefing of the Development Budget Coordinating Committee (DBCC) on the proposed P2.606-trillion budget for 2015.

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