SENATE Minority Leader Frank Drilon has prodded the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to check possible non-payment of right taxes by Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation and other suppliers of pandemic-related products ordered by the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM). The senator suggested it may be better…
SENATE Minority Leader Frank Drilon pressed the Duterte administration on Wednesday to file tax evasion charges against a Chinese firm that the government paid almost P2 billion to as one of the awarded suppliers of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drilon zeroed in on the XUZHOU Construction Machinery…
BLUE-RIBBON probers on Tuesday cited in contempt, and ordered the detention in the Senate premises, of two officials of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation for refusing to provide senators subpoenaed documents in their ongoing inquiry. Senator Richard Gordon, chairman of the Blue Ribbon inquiry, asked Committee Secretary Atty. Rudy Quimbo to order…
FEEDING a Supreme Court directive to comment on the legal challenge by Pharmally executive Linconn Ong, Senate President Vicente Sotto III asked the chamber’s legal counsel to justify the decision to cite Ong in contempt and detain him for his evasive testimonies on multibillion-peso pandemic contracts. Sotto directed Senate lawyers…
SENATORS have chastised Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez for allegedly failing to protect local manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPEs) that he had prodded to ramp up production at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Lopez came under fire as he faced senators at Wednesday's hearing of a…