CENTRAL LUZON OBSERVER

Businessman and poor litigants in Nueva Ecija are complaining about the improprieties that governs the Nueva Ecija Provincial Prosecutor Office were newly appointed assistant prosecutors are involved.

There were stories that the newly appointed assistant prosecutors were exacting monies from people with pending complaints under investigation in their office and cases that were already in court, more so in their petition for reduction of their bailbonds.

Chief Provincial Prosecutor Floro Florendo is said to be not aware of the illegal collection made by his assistants and staffs. The no objection comment on the motion for reduction of bailbond is said to peg at P500 per request and the affidavit of desistance depends on the amount of bail posted by the accused. The bail posted by the accused is then rumored to be divided between the complainant and the assistant prosecutor handling the case. The assistant prosecutor will not grant or agree with the desistance if not given his percentage share of the bailbond recommended. 

Some insiders said their is an assistant prosecutor who after the dismissal of the case was said to personally get a hold of the official receipt of cash bond of the accused from the court records and with the help of the Office of the Clerk of Court withdrawing the same for his own.