The Philippine Iron and Steel Institute (PISI) is pressing graft charges against two officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for allegedly clearing the release of P95-million worth of deformed steel bars imported from China by a food company without the necessary permit.
The importer, Mannage Resources Trading Corp. was put up last year with only P400,000 in capital and registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a food company operating as an importer and seller of “mostly food delicacies.”
In a case filed with the Office of the Ombudsman, PISI President Roberto Cola accused the DTI officials—Ann Claire Cabochan, the director-in-charge of the DTI’s Bureau of Product Standards (BPS), and Leonila Baluyut, the DTI director in Zambales—of being “criminally liable” for granting “provisional” import commodity clearance (ICC) for the Chinese steel bars.
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