For allowing jai alai betting 

Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales has suspended for six months Victorias City, Negros Occidental Mayor Severo Palanca and another city official for the irregular issuance of a Business Permit for the operation of a jai-alai betting station in the area.

In a 22-page ruling signed Nov. 21, 2012, Morales found Palanca and Ramsy Panes, Executive Assistant II, Office of the City Mayor and OIC-Permits and Licenses Division, guilty of simple dishonesty and were meted the penalty of suspension without pay for six months and one day.

James Francis Anthony Garcia earlier complained that the respondents "conspired, confederated, took advantage of their public positions and helped one another in falsifying a public document denominated as Business Permit, dated 23 June 2010."

Garcia claimed the officials issued the permit to Gaudencio Corona as owner/operator of Dalisay Amusement Games and Recreation Station, which Garcia alleged does not exist.

The ruling said the evidence substantially shows that respondents Palanca and Panes issued a Business Permit to one not clearly entitled thereto.

It said "[t]hat a Permit was issued showing that Corona was owner/operator and that he may engage in Jai-Alai Betting Station clearly shows that respondents concealed and distorted the truth which shows a disposition to deceive with an intent to violate the truth."*PNA