菲律宾政府监察使已暂停一名信息通信技术部（DICT）高级官员的职务，指控他将政府合同授予自己创立并持续持有股份的公司。监察使昨日宣布暂停职务，并点名电子政务次长大卫·L·阿尔米罗尔（David L. Almirol）为涉事人员，理由是考虑了“严重渎职、有损公共服务最佳利益的行为以及违反……《公职人员和雇员行为规范和道德标准》的行政投诉”。“监察使在暂停职务令中认定，有确凿证据支持针对阿尔米罗尔的行政指控，”其暂停职务公告称。
The Philippines government’s Ombudsman has suspended a senior Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) official over allegations he assigned government contracts to a company he founded and continued to hold a stake in. The Ombudsman announced the suspension yesterday and named Undersecretary for E-Government David L. Almirol as the individual of concern, after considering “administrative complaints of Grave Misconduct, Conduct Prejudicial to the Best Interest of the Service and violation of … the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees.”“In ordering the preventive suspension, the Ombudsman found strong evidence supporting the administrative charges against Almirol,” according to its announcement of the suspension.
阿尔米罗尔创立了一家名为Multisys Technologies Corporation的公司，提供软件开发服务及打包产品。在担任该公司首席执行官（CEO）十余年后，阿尔米罗尔于2022年应费迪南德·马科斯总统（Ferdinand Marcos Jr.）之邀加入DICT，致力于改善电子政务服务。监察使指控，在2023年至2025年间，DICT向与Multisys有关联的实体授予了至少八份价值超过15亿比索（约合2400万美元）的合同。
Almirol founded a company called Multisys Technologies Corporation that offers software development services, plus packaged products. After over a decade as the company’s CEO, Almirol in 2022 joined DICT at the request of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to work on improving e-government services. The Ombudsman alleged that between 2023 and 2025 DICT awarded at least eight contracts valued at over ₱1.5 billion ($24 million) to entities linked with Multisys.
这些合同涵盖信息通信技术咨询、电子政务应用部署、基于网络的消息服务、云基础设施、数据中心托管及软件订阅。这些交易的证据显然记录在Multisys的账簿中。
The contracts covered information and communications technology consultancy, e-government application deployment, web-based messaging services, cloud infrastructure, data center colocation and software subscriptions. Evidence of those transactions is apparently on the record in Multisys’s books.
当地法律规定，阿尔米罗尔本应在60天内剥离其在Multisys的股份。监察使指控该高管错过了这一期限，但后来已遵守规定。指控并未称他在继续持有Multisys股份期间发放过合同。
Local laws mean Almirol should have divested his stake in Multisys within 60 days. The Ombudsman alleges the exec missed that deadline but later complied. It’s not alleged he issued contracts in the period during which he continued to hold Multisys shares.
监察使已暂停阿尔米罗尔职务六个月且不发薪水，监察使表示此举必要，因为如果他继续任职，“可能损害调查，特别是考虑到他掌控并保管着与案件相关的文件和证据。”该机构还指出，其决定并不预判案件实质，而是“旨在维护程序公正、确保调查公正且不受阻碍的预防性措施。”马科斯 Jr. 总统将根除腐败作为其竞选纲领的关键支柱，甚至专门设立了一个机构来解决这一问题。
The Ombudsman has suspended Almirol without pay for six months, a step it says is necessary because if he continued in the role it “could prejudice the investigation, particularly given his control and custody of documents and evidence relevant to the case.”The org has also pointed out that its decision does not pre-judge the matter, but is “a precautionary measure intended to preserve the integrity of the proceedings and ensure an impartial and unimpeded investigation.”President Marcos Jr. made rooting out corruption a key plank of his platform and even created an agency to tackle the problem.
然而，外界认为部分反腐行动可能部分出于政治动机。菲律宾过去的科技相关丑闻包括 2022 年教育部为劣质笔记本电脑支付过高价格一案。®
However, it’s felt that some anti-corruption actions may have been partly politically motivated. Past tech-related scandals in the Philippines include a 2022 case that saw its Department of Education overpay for lousy laptops. ®