SENATE Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III is seeking an investigation on an alleged “undue payment” of the Land Transportation Office connected to a P3.19-billion Road information technology infrastructure project.
Filed in August last year, Senate Resolution 147 seeks for a probe on the LTO’s undue payment to the joint venture of Dermalog Identification System, Holy Family Printing Corp., as well as Microgenesis and Verzontal Builders, as he cited certain provisions of the law that “issuances are explicit in providing that as a general rule, no payment shall be made for services not yet rendered, or for supplies and materials not yet delivered under any contract with the government.
In its 2021 Consolidated Annual Audit Report for the Department of Transportation, the Commission on Audit flagged the LTO “for the undue payment given to the foreign information technology contractor Dermalog, despite incomplete turnover for the P3.19-billion Road IT Infrastructure project.”