THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed a ruling of the Office of the Ombudsman, finding former Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio administratively liable when he converted monetary donations of other officers and employees of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) for an entirely different purpose in 2005.
In an eight-page amended decision penned by Associate Justice Noel Tijam and concurred in by Associate Justices Romeo Barza and Ramon Cruz, the CA’s former Seventh Division ruled that the Ombudsman’s Internal Affairs Board (IAB) correctly held that Villa-ignacio acted with abuse of authority on the conversion, which was made knowledge and consent of the OSP officers and employees.
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