DTI director slapped with malversation rap

A director of the Department of Trade and Industry is facing malversation charge before the Sandiganbayan for allegedly pocketing nearly a million pesos of cash advance without liquidating it.

The Office of the Ombudsman slapped Pedro Vicente Mendoza, director-in-charge of the Bureau of Product Standards, after enough evidence was found that he failed to liquidate P929,375, drawing probable cause from the anti-graft agency that he pocketed the cash.