INQUIRER.net /May 25, 2024 MANILA, Philipppines — The government is set to forfeit billions of pesos worth of lands from suspected Chinese drug lord Willie Ong and his associates. Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said the Land Registration Authority (LRA) and the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) will file forfeiture proceedings against…
By: Melvin Gascon – Correspondent / Philippine Daily Inquirer /January 28, 2022 Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. owes the government up to P6.3 billion in taxes from the supply contracts it entered into with the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM), while its officers may face a prison term of up to six…
Paolo Romero – The Philippine Star, December 4, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. the company at the center of the Senate investigation into alleged multibillion-peso corruption in the government procurement of COVID-19 supplies – may have made “ghost deliveries” of face masks, face shields and personal protective equipment (PPEs) worth at least P3…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /October 22, 2021 The Senate blue ribbon committee has released its preliminary report on the Pharmally scandal that appears to have involved billions of pesos of fraudulent government transactions while the country was battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and the report’s conclusions are more than damning. There was a “grand conspiracy” surrounding…
By: DJ Yap – Reporter /Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 20, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte is at the center of a “grand conspiracy” to defraud the government of billions of pesos perpetrated at the height of the pandemic by his Chinese friend and former economic adviser Michael Yang, executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical…
EDITORIAL: Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 01, 2021 Could it be Stockholm Syndrome? The way the administration has been most protective toward Pharmally and its officials to try to shield them from withering public scrutiny readily calls to mind that emotional response when victims develop positive feelings toward their abusers. As has emerged in the…
Sept 6, 2021, Rappler.com (Editorial) Step 1. Maglagay ng kahit kalahating milyon lang sa bangko bilang kapital. Kahit kakarampot ang kapital mo, basta may koneksyon, ayos! Step 2. Tiyakin mo lang na hindi mabalitaan ng mga taga-Pilipinas na wanted ka pala dahil sa financial fraud sa ibang bansa tulad ng Taiwan. Step 3. Dapat sanggang-dikit…