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2013-10-15 |
PER CURIAM |
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| Leal's failure to restitute the cash shortage amounting to P865,495.68 and "to adequately explain and present evidence thereon constitute gross dishonesty, grave misconduct, and even malversation of public funds."[22] In that same vein, Leal's acts of: a) issuance of temporary receipts; b) in making it appear that certain official receipts are cancelled but with court orders that proved otherwise; and c) withholding documents and retaining the same in her possession while the audit team was conducting its examination, constitute dishonesty and grave misconduct. "Dishonesty refers to a person's 'disposition to lie, cheat, deceive, or defraud; untrustworthiness; lack of integrity; lack of honesty, probity or integrity in principle; lack of fairness and straightforwardness; disposition to defraud, deceive or betray'"[23]; while "in grave misconduct as distinguished from simple misconduct, the elements of corruption, clear intent to violate the law or flagrant disregard of established rule, must be manifest."[24] On the other hand, "failure to deposit on time her cash collections and her shortages in the remittances of collections amount to gross neglect of duty and dishonesty."[25] | |||||