The Bureau of Customs (BOC) should file charges against four companies that are known to be “repeat offenders” of agricultural smuggling in the country. Senator Risa Hontiveros made the call as she pressed Customs officials to submit an investigative report on why repeat violators of smuggling...
Partido Reporma chairman and standard-bearer Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and running mate Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III have vowed to unmask the personalities behind the multibillion-peso smuggling of agricultural products into the country even in their remaining five months...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima has urged the Senate to investigate the Bureau of Corrections’ (BuCor) decision to build a wall on a road leading to the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Brgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa City and check if existing laws were violated during the activitiy. De Lima said the...
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...
Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives Twinkle Dargani and her brother Mohit Dargani have been arrested. The Office of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) reported that the two were arrested at the Davao International Airport in Davao City at aroudn 5 p.m. on Sunday. They were on board a...
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 Thursday, Nov. 4 said she is not backing down against her accusers who filed sedition charges against her and her staff before the Office of the Ombudsman over alleged bribery, saying she is happy to confront her accusers “before a court of law.” “I am happy to...
Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday, Nov. 4 criticized a Senate colleague for complaining about the lengthy hearings of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on the alleged overpriced medical supplies that the government bought from Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. Though he didn’t name names, Gordon...
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...
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 Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday said the government should ban Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group from doing business in the country over its non-payment of income and other taxes after bagging multi-billion contracts with the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement...
