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What made her risk it?
“The Sandiganbayan yesterday sentenced Virginia Diodola-Madeja, a former member of the Board of Nursing of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), to seven years in prison for leaking questions for the 2006 nursing licensure examinations,” reports Rhodina Villanueva in The Philippine Star.
The report noted: “The anti-graft court’s Special Fifth Division found Madeja guilty of violating Section 3(k) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (Republic Act 3019) and Section 15 of the PRC Modernization Act of 2000 (RA 8981). The Sandiganbayan also ordered her to pay a fine of PHP100,000 and barred her from holding public office.”
The report, citing court records, recalled that “Madeja was a first-time examiner and had prepared 500 questions for the test questions data banking systems (TQDS).”
The report pointed out that “the computer randomly selected 100 questions, out of the 1,000 prepared, for the 2006 exams.”
Then, after the June 2006 examinations, a complaint was filed with the PRC’s Baguio office. The complainant claimed that the questions were leaked prior to the testing dates.
According to an investigation by a fact-finding committee, the leaked questions were similar to those prepared by Madeja.
Thus, the Sandiganbayan decision read: “It was simply improbable that another person was able to perfectly divine the exact questions that the accused prepared for the said licensure examinations. It only goes to show that the leakage notes are authentic since they contain information and code terms known to the accused and no other.”
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