CONVICTED. Former MRT-3 General Manager Al Vitangcol is convicted of one count of graft and one count of violation of procurement law for concealing his relationship to his uncle-in-law, one of the incporators of PH Trams that won a maintenance contract for MRT. File photo by Darren Langit/Rapplerformer Metro Rail Transit 3 general manager Al Vitangcol III ofover the 2012 contract given to PH Trams whose incorporator Arturo Soriano was his uncle-in-law.
"Vitangcol clearly gave unwarranted benefit and advantage to PH Trams when he concealed the fact of his relationship with co-accused Soriano, one of the incorporators of PH Trams," said the Sandiganbayan 3rd Division in a decision penned by Associate Justice Bernelito Fernandez with concurrences from Presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang and Associate Justice Ronald Moreno and promulgated January 31.
Section 47 of the procurement law prohibits heads of agencies to enter into contracts with bidders whom they are related to by consanguinity or affinity up to the 3rd civil degree. Vitangcol was acquitted of Section 3 of the graft law which prohibits having direct or indirect financial interest in a government transaction.
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