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share of excise tax funds to obtain more than 110 units of motor vehicles. The resolution cited that the "highly irregular purchase" violated 2 republic acts—RA No. 7171, "An Act to
Promote the Development of the Farmer in the Virginia Tobacco Producing Provinces," and RA No. 9184, "Government Procurement Reform Act --and 1 presidential decree: PD No. 1445, Government Auditing Code of the Philippines. The investigation began on 2 May 2017, but later experienced delays due to missing documents and failure of Imee Marcos and other Ilocos local officials to attend the first two hearings.
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Tabulog. They claimed not remembering any of the aforementioned transactions. They were released on 24 July 2018, after confessing that they indeed had access to tobacco excise tax funds used to pay 70 mini trucks. They also acknowledged that it was their signatures written on pertinent documents, a fact that they had previously denied. Marcos also admitted that the said mini trucks were bought from a direct contractor, and was not up for public bidding, as was the protocol when government property is procured.
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include purchasing vehicles as a means to utilize the excise tax. He also pointed out that a baranggay captain from Laoag City received vehicles, despite the fact that there are no tobacco farms in that area. Other baranggay captains have also complained that the vehicles were not duly registered under the Land
Transportation Office (LTO), or filed as government property, so costs for oil and gas could not be reimbursed by the baranggay budget.
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Records showed that although Chua initially bought each unit for Php270,000, he sold the mini cabs to the government for Php485,000, the overprice amounting to Php7,800,000 overall. The committee also verified the complaints from baranggay captains that the vehicles did not have registrations from the LTO.
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Committee Report No. 638 therefore concluded and recommended that charges be filed against Marcos, Chua, and several local officials. As of July 2018, another "fact-finding investigation" initiated by the Office of the
Ombudsman is underway. If they find enough cause, the Ombudsman will then open a
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Aside from the aforementioned checks, three other signed ordinances indicated that large shares of Ilocos Norte's tobacco excise tax were "set aside" for Marcos' pet project known as "Programang
Ikauunlad ng Mamamayan Ekonomiya at Ekolohiya, or "P Imee." In 2011, Php57,500,000 was allocated for P
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Agcaoili, Eden Batulayan, Josephine Calajete, Encarnacion Gaor, Genedine Jambaro, and
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to produce only tobacco in order to meet government quotas, stayed in place until 1882. By then, a hundred years under the monopoly had changed the society, culture, and ecology of the Ilocos region so much that the economy of the region has since remained dependent on tobacco farming.
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return from exile, Marcos returned to
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