By: DJ Yap – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer / February 02, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — The Senate blue ribbon committee on Tuesday accused President Rodrigo Duterte of complicity in “one of the biggest plunders of the Philippines’ coffers in recent history” that involved his friends and appointees in the government’s multibillion-peso pandemic supply deals…
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…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter / INQUIRER.net /December 21, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte was reminded by Senator Richard Gordon that if the former is looking to fund the government’s response to the disaster caused by Typhoon Odette, he can look at the allegedly anomalous transactions done by Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. Gordon…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /December 07, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The footprints and hallmarks of Malacañang and Sen. Bong Go appear to be all over the mess involving the Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp., Sen. Richard Gordon said as the names of past officials linked to both have been brought up during the investigations….
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 /September 24, 2021 The ironically named House committee on good government and accountability has slammed as “political” the Senate probe into the Pharmally deal, which has so far revealed how, among other anomalies, a small favored foreign supplier cornered a multibillion government contract for face masks, personal protective equipment, and test…