RIPS files charges against Porsche-riding Customs clerk before Ombudsman
RIPS (Revenue Integrity Protection Service), the Department of Finance’s (DOF) anti-corruption unit, has filed administrative and criminal charges against the Porsche-riding Bureau of Customs clerk who supposedly fired his gun in a traffic altercation in Pasay City last month.
In a February 17 complaint filed before the Office of the Ombudsman, RIPS charged Paulino Elevado IV for “Serious dishonesty and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service” under the Revised Rules on Administrative Cases in the Civil Service.
RIPS also charged Elevado for allegedly violating provisions of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards of Public Officials and Employees, according to a statement Monday by the office of RIPS executive director Romeo Tomas Jr.
Customs clerk Elevado figured in a shooting incident on Jan. 21 after a traffic altercation with a 20-year-old student onboard a Toyota Innova.
CCTV cameras caught the car chase between Elevado who was driving a Porsche sports car and the student who asked not to be named.
Elevado denied owning the Porsche, but RIPS investigation showed that he supposedly accumulated other properties deemed disproportionate to his legitimate source of income.
The Customs clerk has been maintaining properties which he failed to disclose in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN), RIPS said in its complaint.
According to RIPS, Elevado has been maintaining two private residences in high-end residential areas in Las Piñas City.
In his 2003 SALN, Elevado reported that he acquired a Volvo motor vehicle for P400,000, according to the complaint.
However, RIPS noted discrepancies in the declared cost of the vehicle in his SALNs for the years 2004, 2005, and 2006.
“Respondent’s gross annual income from 2001 to 2004 only ranged from P71,592 to P73,368," a part of the complaint noted.
Those amounts were equivalent to a monthly salary roughly P5,000 to P6,000.
“It is thus inconceivable for a mere Customs Clerk to afford a high-ticket personal vehicle worth P400,000.00 when he had not clearly established other income-generating trade at the time of the said purchase,” Tomas said reporter Monday.
Citing BOC service record, RIPS said Elevado receives a monthly income of roughly P10,000.
“This is grossly disproportionate to the aggregate costs of his varied investments in his other personal assets, such as jewelry, and furniture and fixtures,” the RIPS official said.
RIPS record also showed other violations Elevado supposedly committed, including non-filing of SALNs for the 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, RIPS.
Tomas said his office turned over to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) documents related to Elevado’s properties for tax investigation.
RIPS was established in 2003 to conduct lifestyle and graft investigations and files criminal and administrative cases against officials of government’s revenue-generating bureaus and agencies. — VS, GMA News
In a February 17 complaint filed before the Office of the Ombudsman, RIPS charged Paulino Elevado IV for “Serious dishonesty and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service” under the Revised Rules on Administrative Cases in the Civil Service.
RIPS also charged Elevado for allegedly violating provisions of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards of Public Officials and Employees, according to a statement Monday by the office of RIPS executive director Romeo Tomas Jr.
Customs clerk Elevado figured in a shooting incident on Jan. 21 after a traffic altercation with a 20-year-old student onboard a Toyota Innova.
CCTV cameras caught the car chase between Elevado who was driving a Porsche sports car and the student who asked not to be named.
Elevado denied owning the Porsche, but RIPS investigation showed that he supposedly accumulated other properties deemed disproportionate to his legitimate source of income.
The Customs clerk has been maintaining properties which he failed to disclose in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN), RIPS said in its complaint.
According to RIPS, Elevado has been maintaining two private residences in high-end residential areas in Las Piñas City.
In his 2003 SALN, Elevado reported that he acquired a Volvo motor vehicle for P400,000, according to the complaint.
However, RIPS noted discrepancies in the declared cost of the vehicle in his SALNs for the years 2004, 2005, and 2006.
“Respondent’s gross annual income from 2001 to 2004 only ranged from P71,592 to P73,368," a part of the complaint noted.
Those amounts were equivalent to a monthly salary roughly P5,000 to P6,000.
“It is thus inconceivable for a mere Customs Clerk to afford a high-ticket personal vehicle worth P400,000.00 when he had not clearly established other income-generating trade at the time of the said purchase,” Tomas said reporter Monday.
Citing BOC service record, RIPS said Elevado receives a monthly income of roughly P10,000.
“This is grossly disproportionate to the aggregate costs of his varied investments in his other personal assets, such as jewelry, and furniture and fixtures,” the RIPS official said.
RIPS record also showed other violations Elevado supposedly committed, including non-filing of SALNs for the 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, RIPS.
Tomas said his office turned over to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) documents related to Elevado’s properties for tax investigation.
RIPS was established in 2003 to conduct lifestyle and graft investigations and files criminal and administrative cases against officials of government’s revenue-generating bureaus and agencies. — VS, GMA News
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