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The main objective of the OMB-COA CRMS is to establish an effective case monitoring system to collect, monitor, safe-keep, and maintain complete, updated, and reliable information on fraud audit cases for prompt availability and efficient monitoring between OMB and COA.
The Field Investigation Office (FIO) is designated as the CMU for the OMB, and the Fraud Audit and Investigation Office (FAIO) is designated as the CMU for the COA.
The inventory of fraud audit cases includes all cases from January 2005 to July 2010 that are under fact-finding, preliminary investigation, administrative adjudication, and prosecution before the courts.
The CMUs are responsible for collecting, maintaining, updating the database of fraud audit cases, coordinating for status updates, and ensuring unhampered access to case records between the OMB and COA.
Any request for case records must be in writing and approved by the Heads of the FAIO and FIO, and such requests must be acted upon promptly.
The OMB's FIO must forward duplicate copies of signed resolutions, decisions, and orders in fraud audit cases, as well as court decisions related to these cases to the COA's FAIO.
The COA's FAIO must furnish the OMB's FIO with copies of Notices of Disallowance (NDs), Notices of Charge (NCs), and final and executory decisions related to fraud audit cases.
The inventory must be completed within six (6) months after the signing of the Joint Memorandum Circular.
The system must consider Republic Act No. 8792 (Electronic Commerce Act), its implementing rules and regulations, and the Rules of Electronic Evidence (A.M. No. 01-7-01-SC) of the Supreme Court.
This Joint Memorandum Circular took effect immediately upon signing.