Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez has been cleared by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on Thursday over the controversial sugar importation order.

The report from the Blue Ribbon did not mention Rodriguez, who revealed during the hearing that he received a draft of the controversial Sugar Order No. 4 but ignored it following the pending decision from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who also sits as the Agriculture secretary.

In the same report, the Senate panel recommended criminal and administrative charges against the four signatories of the order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar into the country.

According to the panel, suspended Agriculture Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian, resigned Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) chief Hermenegildo Serafica, and former SRA board members Rolando Beltran and Aurelio Gerardo Valderrama Jr. have committed administrative offenses of serious dishonesty, grave misconduct, gross neglect of duty, conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service, and gross insubordination.