The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) branded as “outdated’’ the figures used by the Office of the Ombudsman of the cash advances that the bureau supposedly failed to liquidate.
 
BJMP Director Rosendo Dial maintained that the Office of the Ombudsman is aware that the BJMP had liquidated the amount mentioned in its press releases, saying that the office used the old data provided by the bureau last March.
 
He added that, since then, the BJMP had liquidated all of its cash advances, which were mostly subsistence allowance for inmates, adding that he was unaware why the Ombudsman used the old data.

Earlier, the Office of the Ombudsman included the BJMP among the agencies that failed to liquidate P18 million of cash advances, prompting it to withhold the salaries of the bureau’s personnel.

Dial, in a letter to the Office of the Ombudsman dated August 10, 2010, said that the BJMP had already liquidated most of the cash advances reflected in their March report except for one travel expense incurred by a personnel who failed to provide the BJMP with his list of expenses due to lost documents.

The BJMP chief said that the concerned personnel vowed to pay back the full amount of his cash advance.