Tag: #Michael Yang
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Gordon: Sedition, breach of official duty, coercion raps may be filed vs ‘citizen’ Duterte
Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chief Senator Richard Gordon on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte can be charged for inciting to sedition and possibly even grave coercion for his role in the questionable P8-billion COVID-19 pandemic supply contract entered into by the government with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation in 2020.
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Senate panel recommends admin, criminal raps vs Lao, Duque; seeks deportation of Duterte’s ex-adviser
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has recommended the filing of administrative and criminal charges, including graft and plunder charges, against former Department of Budget and Management-Procurement Services (DBM-PS) Undersecretary Christopher Lloyd Lao and Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III.
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Gordon calls Yang's complaint a desperate move to throw off Senate inquiry
Senator Richard Gordon said on Friday, Nov. 26, that the former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang was afraid to come out after the capture of his business colleagues Linconn Ong, as well as siblings Mojit and Twinkle Dargani.
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Hontiveros maintains Senate powers 'well-settled' in law and jurisprudence
Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Thursday, Nov. 25 that they stand by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee after former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang asked the Supreme Court (SC) to nullify the arrest orders issued against him.
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Tolentino bill mandates appointment of gov't advisors based on merit and fitness
Senator Francis Tolentino is seeking to amend a law to ensure that government consultants and advisors will be appointed based on merit and their fitness for the position.
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Lower House probe triggered by senators linking Duterte to DOH supply overpricing claim
DIWA Partylist Rep. Michael Aglipay, chairman of the House Committee on Good Government, disclosed Wednesday, Oct. 6, that the chamber decided to step into the controversy surrounding the alleged overpricing of over billions of pesos in COVID-19 supplies when the name of President Rodrigo Duterte was dragged into the issue during the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearings.
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Senators fear constitutional crisis over ban on Cabinet men in Senate probes
President Duterte could cause a constitutional crisis should he pursue his order to members of his Cabinet and law enforcers to ignore the legislative hearings of the Senate.
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Tolentino: Duterte made his point, must let Senate Blue Ribbon hearings to continue
President Duterte’s defense of his supposed friends involved in the government’s contracts with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation should not be equated to tolerating acts of corruption.
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'Talk is cheap': Roque says Pharmally exec's claim of face shield tampering must be substantiated
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has dismissed a Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. official’s claim that the firm sold the government “spoiled” face shields, saying that it’s practically an unsubstantiated testimony.
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Gordon convinced that Duterte is behind Pharmally execs' refusal to speak
Senator Richard Gordon on Monday, September 27, speculated that President Duterte was behind the decision of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives to evade questions on its transactions with the government for the purchase of COVID-19 response supplies.
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Senate panel orders transfer to Pasay City jail of Pharmally exec Ong
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has ordered the transfer of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation director Linconn Ong to the Pasay City Jail for his refusal to answer the senators’ inquiries about their company’s deals with the Philippine government.
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Hontiveros: Another Pharmally exec worked for gov’t under Michael Yang
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday disclosed that an executive of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. had worked as a special assistant to former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang.
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Yang denies financing Pharmally: Chinese compatriots bankrolled PS-DBM supply deal
Controversial former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang on Monday, Sept. 20, claimed that he never financed Pharmally Pharmaceutical’s P8 billion questionable transactions with government but helped it find friends to bankroll the deal.
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Senate has done a 'damn good job' in exposing Pharmally issue, says 1Sambayan convenor
As far as 1Sambayan convenor Etta Rosales is concerned, the “good word” from the Senate’s investigations on the alleged corruption in the government’s purchase of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) supplies last year must be spread among Filipinos.
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Michael Yang's business partner denies link to Duterte admin's pandemic purchases, illegal drug trade
A business partner of former presidential adviser Michael Yang has denied her links to the foreign company which bagged over P8.6 billion of deals from the government for the purchase of COVID-19 supplies.
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Duterte can't bar Michael Yang, Christopher Lao from attending Senate probe — Sotto
The executive department has no authority to prohibit private individuals from attending the Senate’s investigation on the alleged anomalies in the government’s procurement of COVID-19 supplies, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Wednesday, September 15.
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'Filipinos will judge', Sotto says on Duterte's threat to bar officials in Senate hearings
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has posted a cryptic tweet apparently addressing President Duterte’s plan to screen invitations for Cabinet officials in the upper chamber’s hearings.
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De Lima urges Senate to pursue probe on Michael Yang’s ties to illegal drugs
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday, Sept. 14 renewed her push for the Senate to investigate former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang’s alleged links to the illegal drug trade, especially now that he is the subject of its probe into the government’s procurement of supposed overpriced COVID-19 supplies.