Fraud probe looms in museum fund transfer

The Commission on Audit (COA) has repeatedly demanded that National Museum officials produce all the documents covering the P331.93-million Museum Endowment Fund (MEF) that was deposited in two private banks apparently without a go-ahead from higher authority.

COA also asked National Museum Director Jeremy Barns, Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman Ramon del Rosario Jr., Asst. Directors Ana Ma. Teresa Labrador and Angel Bautista, and Chief Administrative Officer Dionisio Pangilinan—to change the name of the accounts from “National Museum of the Philippines” to the “National Museum.”