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Lamberto Miranda Vs. Commission On Audit

ENGINEER LAMBERTO MIRANDA, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON AUDIT represented by EUFEMIO DOMINGO, ALBERTO P. CRUZ and BARTOLOME C. FERNANDEZ, JR., respondents. Pelagio P. Estopia for petitioner.

G.R. No. 84613 | 1991-08-16

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari questioning these decision ** dated June 20, 1988 of the Commission on Audit which disallowed in audit Lamberto Miranda's claim for payment of his salary as City Engineer of Pagadian City during the period of his suspension from June 1, 1978 to May 21, 1986.

It appears on record that sometime in 1977, Engineer Lamberto Miranda, City Engineer of Pagadian City, was administratively charged with (1) malversation of Barangay funds; (2) overpricing of hand tools for barangay roads, (3) refusal to cooperate with local officials in the prosecution of barangay projects; and (4)...