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Over ₱199-Million in DPWH Contracts to a Firm He Held a Stake In","A 90-day suspension follows 14 graft counts accusing Uswag Ilonggo Rep. James \"Jojo\" Ang Dit Ang Jr. of holding a financial interest in Allencon Development Corp., which won ₱214 million in DPWH contracts while he sat in Congress.","\u003Cp>A sitting party-list representative has been benched from Congress for 90 days over allegations that he steered nearly ₱200 million in Department of Public Works and Highways money to a construction firm he had a financial stake in — a case that lands squarely in the middle of a national reckoning over exactly that kind of arrangement.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The Sandiganbayan Sixth Division ordered the 90-day preventive suspension of Rep. James "Jojo" Ang Dit Ang Jr. of the Uswag Ilonggo party-list on Sept. 21, covering his House seat and any other public office he holds or may hold while the case is pending, according to \u003Ca href=\"https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/09/22/2558114/sandiganbayan-suspends-uswag-ilonggo-rep-ang-90-days\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">PhilStar.com\u003C/a>. The order follows 14 counts of graft the Office of the Ombudsman filed against Ang on July 25 under Section 3(h) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (Republic Act No. 3019) — the provision that bars public officials from having a financial interest in any contract or business their office intersects with.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Prosecutors allege Ang held a pecuniary interest in Allencon Development Corporation, a construction company that landed roughly ₱214 million in DPWH contracts and collected about ₱199 million in payments while he sat in Congress. That is the plain arithmetic of the case: a lawmaker with a stake in a contractor, and a contractor with a government check nearly as large as the interest itself.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The Sandiganbayan did not treat the suspension as a discretionary call. Citing Section 13 of RA 3019, the court noted that once a valid criminal information has been filed, suspension is automatic — the law leaves no room for the court to weigh whether it's warranted. "The court trying a case has neither discretion nor duty to determine whether preventive suspension is required," the ruling states. In plainer terms: the moment the graft charges cleared the filing bar, Ang's suspension became a formality, not a judgment call the court had to agonize over — the discretion question was settled by Congress decades ago, not by this bench.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The underlying graft charges — 14 separate counts — remain unresolved, and the suspension is preventive rather than a finding of guilt. Ang has not been quoted in available reporting responding to the ruling or the underlying allegations.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3>Context\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>The case arrives as the DPWH remains the central agency in the country's flood-control kickback scandal, which has already produced a plunder indictment against former House Speaker Martin Romualdez and a parade of contractor and lawmaker cases before the Sandiganbayan. Ang's case is not part of that flood-control conspiracy as alleged — the contracts at issue are separate DPWH awards to Allencon — but it lands in the same pattern regulators and prosecutors have flagged repeatedly this year: lawmakers with undisclosed financial ties to the contractors doing business with the same infrastructure agency Congress is supposed to oversee. 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