About 30 wardens of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) are being investigated after they have been discovered concerned within the dealing with of cash of the individuals disadvantaged of liberty (PDLs), BuCor officer-in-charge Gregorio Catapang Jr. stated Wednesday.
This got here after Catapang bared Monday that BuCor confiscated over P300,000 in money handed to jail guards and personnel for safekeeping by PDLs.
Interviewed on GMA News’ Unang Balita, Catapang stated they’re nonetheless figuring out the place the PDLs have been supposed to make use of this cash for. The confiscated cash was additionally put below custody, he stated.
“I doubt kung gagamitin sa mabuting paraan ‘yan dahil sa isang araw naman, hindi na nga kailangan gumastos ng more than P2,000 isang PDL eh,” he said, pointing out that PDLs are only allowed to receive P2,000 per day.
(I doubt that it will be used in a good way because PDLs don’t have to spend greater than P2,000 per day.)
With this, Catapang stated that the BuCor will implement reforms as regards to the availability of cash to the PDLs.
“Gagawan natin ng sistema na ‘yung magpapadala. ‘Yung tumatanggap ng padala, kailangan pupunta siya sa office, i-register niya ‘yung pera na pinadala, at siya mismo ang magaabot doonn sa PDL pero may magwi-witness. Ilalagay sa logbook, ivi-video lahat ng transaction para sa ganon, hindi na maulit ‘yan o maihinto na ‘yan,” he defined.
(We will create a system whereby the sender and recipient of the cash should go to the workplace, register the cash being despatched, and provides the cash personally to the supposed PDL. There will probably be a witness and the transactions will probably be put in a logbook and will probably be videoed in order that the scheme won’t occur once more or it will likely be stopped.)
Another sort of criminality guards have been operating in jail was to take a ten%-12% reduce from the cash households electronically despatched to the PDLs.
Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla, in a separate ambush interview, stated the reduce guards took from cash despatched to PDLs may very well be as excessive as 20%. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News
