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Ex-Parañaque mayor Joey Marquez convicted of graft
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 10:09am (Mla time) 08/30/2007
(UPDATE 2) MANILA, Philippines -- Actor and ex-Parañaque City mayor Joey Marquez and three others have been sentenced from 6-10 years imprisonment after their conviction by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court.
Also convicted were Silvestre de Leon, city treasurer; Flocerida Babida, budget officer; and Ofelia Cuanan, general services chief.
The anti-graft court fourth division headed by Associate Justice Gregory Ong convicted Marquez and other city officials for violation of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft Law particularly Section 3 (g) for "entering, on behalf of the government, into any contract or transaction manifestly and grossly disadvantageous to the same, whether or not the public officer profited or will profit thereby."
The Commission on Audit filed the case after it discovered that the broomsticks that were purchased from January 1996 to September 1997 by the city government under Marquez’s term were overpriced by P462,708 and did not go through the regular bidding procedures.
Marquez served as mayor from July 1995 to 1998 when Parañaque was then a municipality and from 1998 to June 30, 2004 when it became a city.