MANILA – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. designated Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Dante Vargas as acting Ombudsman, Malacañang confirmed on Wednesday.
"Confirmed," was Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro's reply in a text message to reporters., This news data comes from:http://rhrp-qsl-mi-vs.jyxingfa.com
Vargas was appointed to the Office of the Ombudsman by former president Rodrigo Duterte in March 2022.
He will take over special prosecutor Mariflor Punzalan-Castillo who has been sitting as officer-in-charge of the anti-graft court since late July after Samuel Martires completed his mandated seven-year term.
Vargas shall oversee affairs at the agency until Marcos names a permanent Ombudsman.
Marcos names acting Ombudsman
- AKG chief denies using ‘kidnap’ car for personal purposes
- Indonesian finance minister's home looted as protest anger grows
- DPWH told to build evacuation centers
- Israel military says controls 40 percent of Gaza City
- Pakistanis no reprieve from floods yet
- US approves .5M in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger
- Filipino priest wins Ramon Magsaysay Award for activism against Duterte's drug war
- Malacañang calls plot to jail VP Duterte 'wild imagination'
- Sotto ousts Escudero in Senate coup
- US church shooter 'obsessed with idea of killing children'
