House to probe WBank fund anomaly in Supreme Court

BAYAN Muna Reps. Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares have filed House Resolution 2049 to probe the supposed World Bank fund anomaly in the Supreme Court.
The resolution directs the Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability to conduct an inquiry, on the irregularities involving the Judicial Reform Support Project (JRSP) funded by the World Bank as implemented by the Supreme Court.
The project, which the World Bank partly funded with $21.9 million (or about P931 million), was started in October 2, 2003. The loan should have lasted up to December 31, 2009 but it was extended by 18 months to June 30, 2011 and then for another 12 months to June 30, 2012.
“The odd thing here is that since Corona became the Chief Justice, the WB reported that progress in attaining the project development objective and implementation have been rated ‘Unsatisfactory’ by the WB,” said Casiño.
“Also, disbursements as of November 30, 2011 stand at US$16.3 or 76% of the revised loan amount of US$21.4 million,” he added.
“We definitely have to get to the bottom of this considering that the JRSP funds may be one of the sources of ill gotten wealth not only of Justice Corona, as mentioned in the impeachment complaint, but of other Supreme Court officials as well,” said Casiño.

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