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Leonisa E. Suarez Vs. Coa

LEONISA E. SUAREZ, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON AUDIT, respondent.

G.R. No. 131077 | 1998-08-07

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

A public officer cannot be held responsible for unauthorized increases in public expenditures or for high cost estimates in public biddings without proof of his or her participation therein. An administrative decision holding such public officer liable, without any evidence at all to back it up, is void for being rendered with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction.

The Case

Before us is a petition for certiorari seeking the reversal of the Decision1 dated January 18, 1996 and the Resolution 2 dated September 9, 1997, promulgated by the Commission on Audit in COA Decision No. 96-021...