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The de­ci­sion to re­as­sign act­ing stenog­ra­ph­er Mindy Ra­moutar to an­oth­er de­part­ment in the Board of In­land Rev­enue was due to a staff short­age and not be­cause of the pres­ence of a “voodoo” arte­fact.

This was the ex­pla­na­tion giv­en by Com­mis­sion­er of In­land Rev­enue, De­o­mati Ram­dass, in her re­sponse to Ra­moutar’s pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter.

Through her at­tor­ney Ki­ran Pan­day, Ra­moutar sent the let­ter to Ram­dass on Feb­ru­ary 10, claim­ing that she was re­as­signed to the BIR’s Le­gal Unit af­ter be­ing ac­cused of prac­tis­ing “voodoo.”