SUPREME Court Administrator Midas Marquez is facing a graft and corruption complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman over the alleged misuse of $21.9 million worth of World Bank loan for a judiciary reform project.

Rizza Joy Laurea, head of the Group of Unified Youth for Social Change, filed the complaint against Marquez, who accused him of allegedly diverting the World Bank loan for Judicial Reform and Services Program to the Supreme Court goodwill games, conference registrations, hotel accommodations, restaurant bills, airfare, payment for resource speakers, and travel expenses, among others based on the World Bank’s Aide Memoire, which monitors the implementation of the loan.

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