The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed the motion for reconsideration filed by former agriculture undersecretary and former Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ( BFAR ) national director Eduardo Gongona . Gongona, along with former BFAR chairman of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) and Simon Tucker, chief executive officer of United Kingdom-based SRT Marine Systems Solutions, were indicted for allegedly violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.
The case stemmed from a complaint filed in 2022 alleging irregularities in the procurement of transmitters and transceivers for BFAR’s Integrated Marine Environment Monitoring System Project Phase II (PHILO) project. The complaint claimed that respondents caused the loss of financial assistance from the French government, paid P722.639 million to SRT-UK without complete documents, and purchased an excessive number of transceivers. BFAR’s PHILO project aimed to monitor the location and activity of commercial fishing vessels at sea to curb illegal fishing
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