OMB-C-2025-0124
critical
High-Profile
Whistleblower
Confidential
Procurement fraud in automated election system maintenance and ballot printing contracts — PHP 4.2B anomaly
Case Stage Progress
Stage 9 of 22: preliminary investigation
Case Information
Complaint IDOMB-2025-0057
Docket NumberOMB-C-2025-0124
Date Received4/18/2025
Sourcewalk in
Case Typegraft and corruption
Statuspreliminary investigation
Prioritycritical
Priority Score93
Completeness78%
RegionNCR
Amount Involved₱4,200,000,000
Primary Respondent
NameCOMELEC Comm. Estanislao Balon, Dir. Milagros Ching (Fictionalized)
PositionCOMELEC Commissioner / IT Director
AgencyCommission on Elections
Rankhead of agency
Gov't Branchconstitutional_commission
ComplainantPio Torres (Former COMELEC employee)
Complainant Typeemployee
Allegations & Details
Nature of Complaint
Procurement fraud in automated election system maintenance and ballot printing contracts — PHP 4.2B anomaly
Alleged Acts or Omissions
Award of AES maintenance contracts to politically-connected provider at inflated rates, approval of rigged bidding documents, receipt of kickbacks in exchange for contract award, deliberate exclusion of lower-bidding qualified suppliers
Date of Incident2022-07-01
Place of IncidentCOMELEC Main Office, Intramuros, Manila
ProjectAutomated Election System Maintenance and Ballot Printing Contract 2022-2025