SURIGAO del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay Jr. and several others are fa­cing charges of graft and grave misconduct before the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with alleged mining in an ancestral domain without the consent of indigenous people (IP).

On Friday, the chieftains of the Manobo and Mamanwa tribes filed a complaint naming Pichay as respondent along with Cesar Detera, former Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Director Leo Jasareno and former MGB officials Danilo Uykieng, Alilio Ensomo, Ador Patino, and Jose Salve Cabiling.

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