📷Vice President Sara Duterte and her chief of staff Atty. Zuleika Lopez
One of the seven Office of the Vice President (OVP) personnel suspected of misusing public funds under Vice President Sara Duterte’s management left Manila for Los Angeles, House committee secretary Sheryl Lagrosas said on Tuesday, November 5.
Lagrosas said this during a hearing in Congress after the House committee on good governance asked the Department of Justice to issue a lookout bulletin against the seven OVP officials for their frequent failure to appear at prior hearings.
“[Of] all the seven whom we requested travel records, only one fled the country. Atty. Zuleika Lopez entered the immigration gates of the airport last night at 7:31 p.m. to board flight PR102 from Manila to Los Angeles,” Lagrosas said during a hearing.
Manila 3rd District and the panel’s chair Joel Chua said he asked the DOJ for assistance after learning that the following OVP officials might be getting ready to depart the country.
Apart from Lopez, the committee issued a lookout bulletin against Assistant Chief of Staff and Bids and Awards Committee Chair Lemuel Ortonio; Administrative and Financial Services Director Rosalynne Sanchez; Special Disbursing Officers (SDOs) Gina Acosta and Edward Fajarda; Chief Accountant Juleita Villadelrey; and former Department of Education Assistant Secretary Sunshine Charry Fajarda. (TCSP)
