A former acting municipal treasurer of Isabela town in Negros Occidental was preventively suspended for 60 days after being charged over the loss of about P6.4 million in government funds allegedly stolen inside her house in this city last January. /PDI
Lacson ordered Escarda to answer the charges in writing, under oath, with the option to submit additional evidence or that of her witnesses within three days from receipt.
Captain Dax Santillan, chief of the Police Station 6 in Bacolod, said Escarda told them that she brought to her house in Las Palmas Subdivision in Barangay Taculing in Bacolod City government cash and checks which she was going to deposit in the bank. The formal charge against Escarda stated that sometime in January, she, “in the performance and taking advantage of her official and administrative functions, with grave abuse of confidence, and without authority from the municipal mayor or the national government, took and removed municipal funds amounting to approximately P2.6 million in cash and P3.
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