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PH mayor suspended over illicit affair

The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered Altavas, Aklan Mayor Denny Refol suspended for six months over an alleged extramarital affair.

Refol was found administratively guilty of disgraceful and immoral conduct for fathering a child with his mistress.

Based on the investigation by Ombudsman-Visayas’ Public Assistance and Corruption Prevention Office, Refol maintained an illicit relationship with another woman despite being married, reported the Philippines Star.

The ombudsman found no merit in Refol’s claim that he had already stopped seeing his mistress, making the complaint moot and academic.

The ombudsman likewise dismissed Refol’s defense that “at present, there are only a few public officials who have no mistresses.”

The National Bureau of Investigation-Western Visayas Regional Office said Refol’s illicit relationship was already “public knowledge in the municipality because respondent publicly displayed the same.”

The ombudsman initiated a fact-finding investigation on Refol’s extramarital affairs following a tip by an anonymous complainant.

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