BusinessWorld
May 3, 2021 | 8:39 pm
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS
THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said Monday that it is set to investigate corruption allegations against SpeedCast International Ltd, a Hong Kong-based firm tapped to implement the government’s free internet connectivity project.
The announcement, in a statement issued late Monday, comes after the President’s spokesman Herminio L. Roque, Jr. asked the DICT to terminate its contract with SpeedCast for the P1.3-billion free WiFi project due to the slow rollout, and amid reports that the company had undervalued six shipments in its Customs declarations.
“We constituted an Investigating Task Force, and it is set to investigate the Bureau of Customs (BoC) findings on the UNDP contractor’s alleged violation of customs and other Philippine laws,” it said in a statement, referring to the United Nations Development Programme, the proponent of a global inclusiv