Ombudsman: ERC chief still under investigation

Though already reinstated to her post, Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) chairperson Monalisa Dimalanta is not off the hook yet of administrative charges filed against her by consumer group National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reforms, Inc. (NASECORE).

- By ELIZABETH MARCELO

In a press statement issued yesterday, the Office of the Ombudsman said Dimalanta is still under investigation for administrative charges even though it already lifted her preventive suspension.

"Respondent Dimalanta has already filed her counter-affidavit and the documents needed in the investigation are already in the possession of the investigators. What is simply left to be done is the submission of position papers and a clarificatory hearing," the ombudsman's statement read.