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Office of the Court Administrator Vs. Sylvia Canque etc.

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Petitioner, versus SYLVIA CANQUE, Clerk of Court, 12th MCTC, Moalboal-Badian-Alcantara-Alegria, Cebu, Respondent.

A.M. No. P-04-1830[Formerly A.M. No. 04-6-151-MCTC] | 2009-06-04

D E C I S I O N


Per Curiam:

The instant case stemmed from the Investigation Report of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Region VII on the entrapment operation on Sylvia R. Canque, Clerk of Court, 12th Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC), Moalboal-Badian-Alcantara-Alegria, Cebu.

The Investigation Report showed that on June 1, 2004, Marissa Y. Ypanto of Barangay Polo, Alcantara, Cebu filed a letter-complaint before the NBI alleging that Canque asked from her the amount of Forty Thousand (P40,000.00) Pesos in exchange for the release of the former's common-law husband, Jovencio Patoc, and the dismissal of his criminal cases in...