(Eagle News)–The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission should stop its probe into the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, and other issues in the Bureau of Corrections.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in an interview over CNN Philippines that the Ombudsman, after all, is already conducting its own probe.
“When the Ombudsman takes over, all agencies will have to defer to the Ombudsman, because that is the constitutional body precisely tasked to investigate,” Panelo said.
The PACC has said it would continue its probe into the issues in the BuCor as it had been given the go-signal by President Rodrigo Duterte to do so.
Only recently, the Ombudsman issued a suspension order against over 30 BuCor officials in connection with the GCTA law mess.
The Ombudsman also asked Senator Leila de Lima and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas to explain the implementing rules and regulations of the law that they crafted in 2014.
De Lima was justice secretary at that time.