Pampanga mayor gets 6-month suspension for grave misconduct

San Simon, Pampanga mayor suspended 6 months for alleged P80-M bribe try

The Office of the Ombudsman suspended San Simon, Pampanga Mayor Abundio “Jun” Punsalan, Jr. to a maximum of six months in connection with a P80 million bribe attempt from a steel company.

Pampanga mayor gets 6-month suspension for grave misconduct

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — The Office of the Ombudsman has placed San Simon, Pampanga Mayor Abundio “JP” Punsalan Jr. under preventive suspension for six months without pay in connection with two administrative complaints filed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). The cases stem from an August 5 entrapment operation in which he allegedly accepted P30 million that he had demanded from a Chinese-Filipino businessman. READ: Pampanga…