CHIEF Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno’s statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) from 2001, 2003-2009 are missing from her 201 file at the University of the Philippines, where she was employed before she was appointed Supreme Court associate justice in 2010. Escoto, who has been head of UP’s HRD Office, said the best way to find the missing SALNs was to check with the Ombudsman. The panel chairman, Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, then ordered the committee secretary to ask the Ombudsman to furnish them with copies of Sereno’s SALNs, including those from 2001 and 2003 to 2009. Gadon filed the impeachment complaint against Sereno for culpable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust, corruption and other high crimes. She was appointed chief justice in 2012, after Aquino’s allies in Congress ousted Corona by impeachment.

Source: The Standard November 27, 2017 18:45 UTC