A ranking official of the Department of Agriculture may soon find himself in serious trouble for allegedly forging the signature of Senator Aquilino Pimentel 3rd to a memorandum of agreement involving the disbursement of at least P30 million non-priority development assistance fund (non-PDAF) to several local government units last year.

Pimentel, in a privilege speech delivered on Tuesday, said that apart from asking the concerned senate committee to investigate the alleged anomalous fund disbursement, he will also be filing falsification complaints before the office of the Ombudsman against DA undersecretary Antonio Fleta.

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