BAAO, Camarines Sur: The Office of the Ombudsman has denied the motion for reconsideration Mayor Melquiades Gaite filed on its resolution dismissing him from the service on a graft case saying the official failed to present new evidence to prove his innocence.

The Ombudsman said that it can only entertain such motions on the “basis of a newly discovered evidence which materially affects [its] order, directive or decision, or, [that] grave errors of facts or laws or serious irregularities have been committed prejudicial to the interest of the movant.”

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