By LITO RULONA Correspondent A GROUP of prosecutors has completed its fact-finding work on the alleged fixing of cases in the City Prosecutor’s Office. The names of four prosecutors have surfaced, said regional state prosecutor Jaime Umpa said over the weekend. Umpa, who declined to name the four prosecutors, said he was waiting for the cybercrime unit of Camp Alagar to submit its findings on audio recordings, and to confirm if some of the voices were really that of the four prosecutors’. “We were informed that the cybercrime unit would release the report next week,” he said. Umpa said he would write his report and submit it to Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre III based on the findings of investigators led by assistant regional state prosecutor Irene Mison, and the police’s cybercrime unit. “If the DOJ finds strong evidence, then it would likely order the prosecutors suspended,” he said. Umpa said he called the prosecutors who were suspected of involvement in the fixing of cases, and talked to them. “They denied they’re involved. They said they were ready to face any case filed against them,” he said. The alleged corruption in the local prosecution office has come to the fore following the arrest of CPO administrative aide Genard Abejo during an entrapment in Gusa two weeks ago. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) alleged that Abejo demanded a P350-thousand bribe from three women in exchange for the dismissal of complaints filed against their children. The CIDG said Abejo was caught red-handed, and that he was allegedly a “middleman” and “bagman” of some corrupt prosecutors, accusations the suspect strongly denied. Umpa said Aguirre was monitoring the progress of the fact-finding work because the secretary wanted the suspects brought to the Office of the Ombudsman the soonest possible. He said Aguirre also wanted the names of the prosecutors. Umpa said Mison’s report would be one of the bases for the filing of a graft case in line with the Duterte administration’s “zero tolerance” for corruption. Meanwhile, Umpa said Abejo was on “floating status,” and acting city prosecutor Merlyn Uy wanted him replaced. Abejo is a city hall-paid employee. Mayor Oscar Moreno earlier explained that while Abejo is a “city-paid” employee, he is directly under the city prosecutor. “City hall only provides them funds, financial aid, but they decide on the people they hire,” Moreno told the Gold Star Daily in an earlier interview.