ASEANEWS | Paper Edition Headlines: MANILA- Pharmally report vs Duterte (Guilty of Plunder Case) awaits senators’ nod

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MANILA, Philippines — The majority of the Senate blue ribbon committee members have not signed a report alleging misuse of state funds for pandemic supplies and recommending prosecution of President Rodrigo Duterte for his “betrayal of public trust” for allegedly defending those involved in the irregularities.

In a speech on Tuesday, committee chair Sen. Richard Gordon said the 113-page partial report that he authored gave a “painful, if not horrific, example of treason when there is no armed conflict.”

 

The committee held 18 hearings in a span of seven months ending in January this year to scrutinize the deals between the Department of Health (DOH) and the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) involving the health agency’s P42-billion pandemic fund.

The committee found that of this amount, P11.11 billion worth of supply contracts were awarded by the PS-DBM and DOH to a single entity, Pharmally Pharmaceutical Inc., a “severely undercapitalized” company run by executives with close links to Michael Yang, a Chinese businessman and a close friend and former economic adviser to Duterte.

The report said Pharmally sold supplies to the government under contracts that were marred by irregularities such as substandard deliveries and expired items, “ghost” deliveries or nondeliveries, and tampered expiry certificates. Its company executives also evaded paying the right taxes, it said.

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