OPPOSITION Sen. Leila de Lima on Wednesday insisted that the immediate resignation of former tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo and other erring officials of the department should not stop the filing of criminal charges against them.

“The accountability of former Secretary Teo, as well as her undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, for the apparent gross misuse of government funds must not be terminated by the simple fact of their resignation,” de Lima said in a statement.

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