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00:00At Punto de Vista, Professor Antonio Conteras will discuss how confidential funds of an agency can be easily abused.

00:08Professor.

00:14Thank you very much, Dayan, and good morning.

00:18Many people ask if confidential or intelligence funds are legal.

00:22We are saying that it is legal.

00:25And there is also the DBM Circular that was issued on January 8, 2015.

00:312015-01 Joint Circulars that were signed by the Department of Budget and Management,

00:37the Commission on Audits, the Department of National Defense, the DILG, and the Governance Commission of the GOCC.

00:44So therefore, there is a guideline for this.

00:47But it is also clear that it was abused.

00:52We saw in the hearing of the committee,

00:56that only 16 million pesos were spent every day to pay the rent of a safe house of 34 or 36 safe houses.

01:07Millions of pesos were spent every day on the medicines and food of DILGs.

01:14So this is clearly an abuse.

01:16But how did it become legal?

01:18Because if we read the DBM Circular,

01:21we were told by the COA,

01:23that the auditing mechanism is different when it comes to confidential and intelligence funds.

01:29There are special provisions or special procedures

01:32where it is not used for ordinary auditing.

01:37That is why many are wondering, especially those of us who work in the government,

01:41we know that it is disallowed.

01:43Sometimes, even if it is a 13th month pay or bonus,

01:47it is disallowed.

01:48The expenses of the projects are disallowed.

01:51Because it is being audited.

01:55The COA is auditing and assessing our expenses

02:00because it is the money of the people.

02:02But here in the confidential and intelligence fund,

02:05it is as if they spent millions of pesos in one day.

02:09But this is the money of the people.

02:11That is why what the COA said yesterday in the hearing is correct.

02:15Maybe it is time to review that Joint Circular.

02:19We understand that when it comes to intelligence funds,

02:22it cannot be done publicly.

02:24It cannot be left out because there are national security issues.

02:29But the confidential fund that we are giving

02:32to the NGAs, National Government Agencies,

02:34that really don't have a job related to intelligence,

02:37that is one way for us to implement it better.

02:42Because we are not taking out the expenses of the confidential

02:46and intelligence fund.

02:49But we are taking out the holes so that it can be abused.

02:54We are supporting and we should support

02:57the strengthening and revising of this DBM Circular

03:01so that in the coming days, it will not be abused.

03:05And we will be able to avoid the unreasonable

03:08and surprising expenses that are not real.

03:13And it is not millions anymore.

03:15Millions?

03:16There is another 500,000 in rent in 11 days.

03:20What is that? A mansion?

03:21There is another 1 million.

03:22So what should we do with that?

03:24That is a loss if we don't fix it.

03:28That is my point of view this morning.

03:30Thank you very much.

03:31And back to you in the studio, Dayan.

03:33Good morning.

03:35Thank you very much, Professor Antonio Contreras.

Punto De Vista | Paano nga ba madaling maabuso ang confidential funds ng isang ahensiya?

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