‘fixers’ to illicitly garner more income. Fixers litter the various branches of the LTO, offering faster and/or easier transactions and procurement of official LTO paraphernalia at a more expensive price than the standard fee. These fixers and their employers pocket the extra payment in exchange for placing a client higher up in the queuing system, falsifying official government documents, fabricating driving test and written test results, and many other illegal practices. Section 11 of the Republic Act No. 9485 or the “Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007” lists fixing and/or collusion with fixers as a grave offense, with the penalty being dismissal and perpetual disqualification from public service. The fixers themselves can receive a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding six years or a fine not less than Twenty Thousand Pesos (P20,000.00) but not more than Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (P200,000.00) or both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. Private Motor Vehicle Inspection System corruption scandal The Private Motor Vehicle Inspection controversy involved allegations of corruption that the 800-million Php fund fraud drying of the LTO-PMVIC wherein the charge of 1500-1800 Php for each private vehicle inspection another 900 Php in case it fails the first inspection and to give benefited high ranking officials and car inspection centers. Senator Grace Poe vowed to recommend to the Senate blue ribbon an investigation into the alleged scandals and anomalies in the Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers (PMVICs), specifically on the deals of Department of Transportation (DOTr) with the private inspection centers. Poe warned that passing the mandate of vehicle inspection from DOTr to the private sector may have legal infirmities. The senator lamented that even without an exhaustive public consultation and public information campaign, DOTr and LTO still issued a memorandum order on December 29, 2020, directing the immediate implementation of PMVIC in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Senate urges DOTr to cancel PMVIC operations on February 17, 2021. References External links Land Transportation Office Philippines website Department of Transportation (Philippines) Establishments by Philippine executive order