MIAA general manager charged with graft

Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Jose Angel Honrado has been charged with graft and corrupt practices before the Office of the Ombudsman.

In an eight-page complaint affidavit, lawyer Ramil Joselito Tamayo, founder of Koalisyon Kontra Katiwalian, recently asked the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate the alleged violation of the Constitution committed by Honrado and other MIAA officials, after awarding a contract for the ground handling of NAIA Terminals 1 and 3 to DNata Inc., which according to documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is 100 percent owned by foreigners from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).