The Sandigabayan has found actor Roderick Paulate guilty of graft and falsification of public documents in connection with the hiring of fictitious job contractors in 2010 during his stint as Quezon City councilor.
In a 130-page decision dated November 25, the court said Paulate recommended the hiring of 30 individuals under job contracts who received wages from July to December 2010 even if their Personal Data Records were riddled with irregularities.
Paulate and his co-accused, then-driver/liaison officer Vicente Bajamunde, were sentenced to six to eight years jail time and perpetually disqualified from public office for their graft conviction. The court also sentenced Paulate with six months to six years in jail time and a fine of P10,000 for his conviction on the falsification by a public officer charge.
“It is to be emphasized that the prosecution has consistently showed that the entries in the educational background in the PDS of the job contractors were false because they either do not have records in the schools which they claimed to have attended, or the schools they indicated were not yet established at the time they claimed to have been enrolled or graduated,” the anti-graft court said.
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