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Presidential Ad-Hoc Fact Finding Committee v. Desierto

PRESIDENTIAL AD HOC FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE ON BEHEST LOANS, represented by: PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON GOOD GOVERNMENT (PCGG), Petitioner, versus HON. OMBUDSMAN ANIANO DESIERTO, WENCESLAO PASCUAL, GAUDENCIO VIDUYA, JULIA M. MACUJA, PLACIDO MAPA, JR., JOSE TEVES, ALEJANDRO MELCHOR, RECIO M. GARCIA, DBP BOARD OF DIRECTORS LORENZA N. SALCEDO, JOSEPHINE S. GARCIA, STOCKHOLDERS OF P.R. GARCIA & SONS DEVELOPMENT and INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Respondents.

G.R. No. 135687 (Re: OMB-0-96-2643) | 2007-07-24

D E C I S I O N 
 
 
AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J.: 
 
Before the Court is a petition for review on certiorari seeking to annul and set aside the Order[1] of the Ombudsman dated July 6, 1998 dismissing three complaints filed by petitioner docketed as OMB-0-96-2643, OMB-0-96-2644 and OMB-0-96-2645, and its Order[2] of August 31, 1998, denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration. 
 
The factual and procedural antecedents of the case are as follows: 
 
On October 8, 1992, then President Fidel V. Ramos issued Administrative Order No. 13, which created herein petitioner Presidential Ad Hoc Fact-Finding...