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Office of the Court Administrator Vs. Atty. Mario N. Melchor, Former Clerk of Court VI, RTC, Br. 16, Naval, Biliran (now Presiding Judge, MCTC, Calubian-San Isidro, Leyte)

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Complainant, vs. ATTY. MARIO N. MELCHOR, JR., FORMER CLERK OF COURT VI, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, BRANCH 16, NAVAL, BILIRAN (now PRESIDING JUDGE, MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURT, CALUBIAN-SAN ISIDRO, LEYTE), Respondent.

A.M. No. P-06-2227 | 2014-08-19

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D E C I S I O N

Per Curiam:
 
For review before the Court is this administrative matter which originated from the financial audit conducted by the Fiscal Monitoring Division of the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) from March 14 to 20, 2006, on the books of account of then Clerk of Court of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 16, Naval, Biliran (RTC), Atty. Mario N. Melchor, Jr. (Melchor).1 The audit covered the court transactions from September 1, 1997 to February 28, 2006.

In the course of the fiscal audit examination, members of the financial audit team discovered evidence of...