Daanbantayan Vice Mayor Luisa Loot & Police Chief husband Vic Loot charged with Graft

[bantay]

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The following document of 6 pages (which was apparently obtained from the Ombudsman in Manila) outlines in detail the graft charges laid by the NBI against Maria Luisa Loot & Vicente Loot. It outlines the numerous criminal charges laid against the Loots and the depth of matters investigated and the extensive documentation submitted as supporting evidence.

[mexicanlady]

Ka grabe ani noh nadatu ug maayo tungod sa kinawat nga kwarta sa hinagua-an sa mga tawo.

[joshua259]

Ka grabe ani noh nadatu ug maayo tungod sa kinawat nga kwarta sa hinagua-an sa mga tawo.

that's how politics got there wealth.

[angSUGO]

datu naman si malou loot even before na mayor sya..

[Sovabon]

nindot ni kon dunay resulta against nila. basin mahilom lang sad ni.

[skadiboy]

Loot couple in graft raps

THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has recommended the prosecution of two Cebu public officials, finding an “unexplained increase in their assets.”

Daanbantayan Vice Mayor Ma. Luisa Loot and her husband, Police Senior Supt. Vicente Loot, allegedly violated the anti-graft law and the Code of Conduct for Public Officials and Employees, and falsified public documents.

“The increase in net worth is not proportionate with the annual taxable income declared by the subjects,” the NBI said in a letter-complaint the Office of the Ombudsman in Manila received last April 3.

“There is no sufficient explanation on the exorbitant increase,” added the document, signed by NBI Deputy Director for Special Investigation Services Victor Bessat.

Senior Supt. Loot believes the complaint has political backing. He told Sun.Star Cebu there were some items they did not include in previous statements of assets and liabilities because these were not required then.

The vice mayor, in a separate interview, described the matter as “political harassment.”

She told Sun.Star Cebu by phone that they went to the NBI central office last Wednesday to ask about the case. She also pointed out that as early as 1998, she already declared some P82 million in assets.

Loot said they are updating their records at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, so they can correct any deficiencies in their taxes.

Business

Other than the anti-graft law, the code of conduct and the Revised Penal Code’s provision against falsification, Bessat’s letter-complaint also cited Republic Act (RA) 1379.

The law sets the procedures and commands the forfeiture, in favor of the state, of any property unlawfully acquired by any public officer or employee.

“Whenever any public officer or employee has acquired during his incumbency an amount of public property which is manifestly out of proportion to his salary... other lawful income and income from legitimately acquired property, said property is presumed prima facie to have been unlawfully acquired,” Section 2 of RA 1379 reads.

Bessat, citing the findings of Atty. Allan Contado, chief of the NBI’s anti-graft division, said the Loot spouses had a total taxable income of P611,214 in 2005, P612,548 in 2006 and P604,680 in 2007.

The figures were based on their tax returns and took into account their salaries and income from their businesses—the Gallera de Mandaue, a cockpit; Eigado Mini Mart; Eigado Lending Investors; the Mandaue Sabungan Canteen; and the Eigado Real Estate Lessor.

Increase

Meanwhile, in the joint Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) that the Loots submitted to the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas for 2005, 2006 and 2007, the spouses declared their net worth as P83,075,143 for 2005, P87,645,800 in 2006 and P106,701,628 in 2007.

The NBI letter-complaint cited the sharp increase in the Loot couple’s net worth between 2005 and 2006 (about P4.5 million)
and between 2006 and 2007 (P19.05 million).

“How could there be an increase in the amount of P4,570,657 in the year 2006 if the only taxable income earned during that year was only P612,548 (based on the annual tax returns)?” Bessat said in his letter.

Bessat said the spouses attributed the 2007 increase—about P19 million—to their construction of houses within Mandaue City’s Mango Green Village, worth P12,272,000, and the acquisition of a Quezon City condominium worth P4.9 million.

They indicated that the value of the Mandaue City property supposedly increased by P23,772,000 from the original P12.2 million, said Bessat.

‘Abrupt’

The couple also indicated that they made additional investments amounting to P6,485,728.

Still, Bessat said, the increase “could not justify or explain the abrupt increase in income.”

Likewise, Bessat said, the couple already factored in the Mandaue City houses in their 2006 SALN.

Senior Supt. Loot acknowledged there was a difference but explained that recently, there were “new baseline declarations” that did not require some items in previous years.

He noted that some items such as insurance and investment policies like pre-need plans were acquired in the 1980s yet and had to be included in the new forms.

Loot added that in previous years, they were not required to itemize all their assets.

No due process

He said he was ready to answer the allegations, but questioned why he and the vice mayor were immediately being charged.

“If they had approached us earlier to ask us about it (the increase in net worth), we would have explained. Dili na unta maabot sa ingon ani. But we are ready to answer that,” Loot said in a phone interview.

He added that a pending case before the Office of the Ombudsman was designed to affect his plans to pursue a promotion.

Loot felt that they were not accorded with due process because they were not asked to explain before it was decided that a complaint be filed against them.

“My question is, why us? Kadaghan diha ga-casino nga mga pulis, mga pulitiko nga mopusta ug tig P500,000. Kami, asa man mi makit-an? Unsa ma’y mga bisyo namo? (There are police and politicians who spend time in the casinos. Have we ever been accused of doing any of that?),” he said.

Personal

He added that with their declared sources of income, one could not doubt that they would be able to afford the assets they have declared. Loot was at the main headquarters in Camp Crame yesterday and admitted many friends have contacted him regarding the impending charges.

Bessat’s letter-complaint also stressed the couple failed to reflect certain properties and holdings in their SALN.

The couple, he said, only declared ownership of two parcels of land and two buildings. However, the NBI found, the couple actually has six parcels of land in Daanbantayan.

Vice Mayor Loot said they are ready to face any inquiry, to show political detractors they acquired these legally.

She lamented the “personal attack on my private life” and described the case as part of “dirty political tricks” to get back at them. (KNR/With MEA & GMD)

[iceman888]

unsay dato nga imong gisulti nga manindahay man na sila ug isda intawn in short she's nobody

[mexicanlady]

Mao diayng makig patay si Malou Loot ug dili gusto magpa puli kay pwerte na diay daghanang kwarta nila. Kuwangan pa siguro siya. Hala, there's an end to everything ra ba gyud. Basin mao na ni ang ending Mam Loot ug na "KARMA" na mo tanan nimong pamilya.

[giddyboy]

AND NOT ONLY THAT...Capitol is also filing charges against Loot and Shimura.

Gwen, Loot : ?no political breakup? | Sun.Star Network Online

[king1]

datu naman si malou loot even before na mayor sya..

thats true.they were rich even before Malou Loot became the Mayor Of Daanbantayan.but they even got richer and more powerful when Vic Loot and Malou Loot has been appointed as CPPO Director and Mayor of Daanbantayan.