CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Capping months of camera surveillance, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday filed here a complaint for theft of government property against a Commission on Audit employee suspected to be behind the missing P2-million office supplies in the agency’s depot.
The NBI on Thursday continued to hold the suspect, Rosario Canlas, in its office at the Clark Freeport as it awaited the order of the San Fernando prosecutor to commit her to jail.
Video footage that caught Canlas getting an ink cartridge at past 4 p.m. on Aug. 11 has been turned over to the prosecutor’s office as evidence, according to Jimmy Restua, assistant director of the NBI in Central Luzon.
Canlas has denied the offense and was ready to post bail.
Restua said the surveillance and entrapment operation were done at the request of DBM regional director Elisa Salon.
Before her arrest, Canlas worked as head of the COA’s regional procurement service office in Barangay Maimpis here for two years. The supplies there are sold to other regional government agencies at lower prices.
Salon was not in her office when this correspondent called to ask why Canlas, who was employed only on a job-order status, was assigned to oversee the depot.
Salon uncovered the supposed theft through a low-key audit, COA sources said.
The NBI on Thursday continued to hold the suspect, Rosario Canlas, in its office at the Clark Freeport as it awaited the order of the San Fernando prosecutor to commit her to jail.
Video footage that caught Canlas getting an ink cartridge at past 4 p.m. on Aug. 11 has been turned over to the prosecutor’s office as evidence, according to Jimmy Restua, assistant director of the NBI in Central Luzon.
Canlas has denied the offense and was ready to post bail.
Restua said the surveillance and entrapment operation were done at the request of DBM regional director Elisa Salon.
Before her arrest, Canlas worked as head of the COA’s regional procurement service office in Barangay Maimpis here for two years. The supplies there are sold to other regional government agencies at lower prices.
Salon was not in her office when this correspondent called to ask why Canlas, who was employed only on a job-order status, was assigned to oversee the depot.
Salon uncovered the supposed theft through a low-key audit, COA sources said.
