Former Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) Administrator Melquiades Robles and several other respondents pleaded not guilty to the graft complaint filed against them for allegedly paying a joint venture P3.37 million per month for the deployment of janitors while allowing the reduction of the required number to be deployed from a minimum of 321 to 219 in 2009.
Arraigned on Tuesday at the Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division were Robles, Federico Canar Jr., former department manager of LRTA Line 1, former Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) members Marilou Liscano and Eduardo Abiva, and former LRTA SBAC Technical Working Group members Nicholas Ombao, Roger Vaño, Maynard Tolosa, Juliet Labisto, Evelyn Macalino, and Dennis Francisco.
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