Gotcha! The Dargani siblings - Mohit and Twinkle - have been arrested in Davao city following an attempt to leave the Philippines aboard a Lear jet reportedly for Singapore. But Lloyd Christopher Lao, resigned Procurement Service, Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) chief, remained at...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday said she believes President Duterte is now “feeling the heat” that is why he is now changing his stance on Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. as the Senate blue ribbon committee deepens its probe into the government’s questionable spending during the COVID-19...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday downplayed the filing of a sedition and perjury case against her by an employee of the beleaguered Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. who now allegedly admits to being bribed and ordered to lie by the lawmaker. Hontiveros is referring to the complaint filed before...
Presidential aspirant Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Tuesday said the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s hearings on the alleged anomalous transaction between the Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation and the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Services (DBM-PS) is already...
Opposition Senator Francis “Kiko” N. Pangilinan on Monday November 1 pushed anew for the passage of a measure that would give tax perks to Filipino manufacturers of COVID-19 medical supplies, stressing this would ensure adequate supply that are not overpriced and create jobs. ‘’As much as...
Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday branded two executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation “Senate fugitives” after they stopped participating in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s ongoing investigation into the alleged overpriced COVID-19 supplies. Gordon said the actions of...
The Senate Blue Ribbon committee on Thursday October 28 asked the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to create a Task Force to investigate a potential P7.56 billion in income taxes due from suppliers of P42 billion worth of COVID 19-related medical supplies through contracts given by the Procurement...
Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair and Senator Richard Gordon on Tuesday welcomed the National Privacy Commission (NPC) for saying that the law on data privacy rights cannot be invoked as an excuse to evade legal proceedings. Gordon, who leads the Senate’s hearing into the alleged anomalous...
Senator Richard Gordon on Friday, Oct. 22 told Mohit Dargani, Pharmally’s corporate secretary and treasurer, to just submit the documents being asked by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. As far as he is concerned, Gordon said Mohit and his sister Twinkle Dargani, Pharmally’s president, has...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, Oct. 22 said executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation should just produce the documents the Senate blue ribbon committee has ordered subpoenaed. Hontiveros issued the remark after Mohit Dargani, Pharmally’s corporate secretary and treasurer released a...
Senator Richard Gordon said it was very clear that President Duterte is at the center of the “grand conspiracy” to defraud the government of billions of pesos at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Gordon made the remark when he released the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s initial...
Senator Richard Gordon on Wednesday, Oct. 20 dared the executives and the legal counsel of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation to challenge the Senate blue ribbon committee’s partial report before the Supreme Court. Gordon had earlier disclosed the partial findings of the blue ribbon panel which...
