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Administration, Franklin M. Ebdalin (DFA Undersecretary Ebdalin). The letter was
received by CORATEL on April 1, 2005. It reads:
To : Honolulu PCG
Fr : UFME/OPAS
: Ms. Eva G. Betita,
Re
Acting Head of Post
Dt : 22 March 2005
Cn : HO-39-UFME-2005
Following the end of the approved extension of services of Consul Rolando
Gregorio on 31 December 2004, effective 01 January 2005, Consul Eva G.
Betita, FSO I, is hereby designated as Acting Head of Post.[10]
On April 21, 2005, DFA Secretary Romulo, through a Memorandum for the President,
recommended that the request of petitioner for extension of government service until
June 30, 2005 be approved.[11] On May 23, 2005, the DFA received a Memorandum
dated May 19, 2005 from the Executive Secretary approving petitioner's extension of
services as Consul General of the Philippine Consulate in Honolulu "until June 30, 2005
or until the arrival of his successor, whichever is earlier."[12]
On June 10, 2005, DFA Secretary Romulo issued a very urgent and confidential
Letter[13] instructing petitioner to return to Home Office by June 13, 2005 and to file
the appropriate leaves for the days he was absent from work from January 2005.[14]
In a Memorandum[15] dated October 18, 2005, Assistant Secretary Ophelia A.
Gonzales, Office of the Personnel and Administrative Services of the DFA requested
from the Assistant Secretary of Fiscal Affairs, the payment of unpaid salaries and
allowances of petitioner for the approved extension of his services as Consul General
from January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2005.[16] The Memorandum further stated that:
In line with our request, enclosed, for your appropriate action, are copies
each of the following:
1. Certificate of Last Payment x x x
xxxx
6. Approved Leave of Absence for the period from 01 April 2005 to 30 June
2005.[17]
On July 15, 2015, after almost 10 years, petitioner filed two Petitions for Money
Claim[18] before respondent COA for payment of salary and additional compensation;
and Overseas Allowance and Living Quarters Allowance, for the period of January 1,
2005 to June 17, 2005 in the amounts of P119, 487.50 and P1,921,659.70,
respectively, or a total amount of P2,041,147.20. The cases were docketed as COA CP
Case No. 2015-436 to 437.[19]
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