The Court of Appeals has set aside the six-month suspension without pay dated March 7 of Bacong Mayor Rodolfo Yee by the Visayas Ombudsman that had been based on a criminal complaint filed by a dismissed employee.

The appellate court also cleared Yee of the charges of oppression in terminating the employment of Eve Morados in November 10, 2004. The decision of the 19th Division of the CA was penned by Associate Justice Isaias Dicdican and concurred to by Associate Justices Antonio Villamor and Stephen Cruz.

Provincial legal officer Erwin Vergara said the decision refers to the case where Yee was able to secure a temporary restraining order, a day before incumbent Vice Mayor Lenin Alviola took over as mayor in Bacong.

Alviola's assumption to office is now the subject of another complaint filed by Yee.*JG

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