THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the decision of the Office of the Ombudsman that found two former commissioners of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) guilty of grave misconduct for their alleged unlawful implementation of the suspension order against an immigration officer.

In an 11-page decision penned by Associate Justice Louis Acosta and concurred in by Associate Justices Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla and Geraldine Fiel-Macaraig, the CA's Special 13th Division upheld the January 26, 2016 ruling of the anti-graft body against former Commissioners Ricardo David Jr., and Siegfred Mison, ordering their dismissal from the service with all the necessary penalties. A co-respondent is BI head executive assistant Grace Lara.

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