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Senate orders arrest of Pharmally official over evasive answers

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 11:03 PM

A Philippine Senate panel orders the arrest of a company executive linked to an allegedly overpriced government purchase of pandemic supplies. Read more »

Palace says gov't probing anomalous Red Cross COVID tests

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 21 05:27 PM

A government facility has started checking the supposed false positives among COVID-19 tests by the PRC, which President Duterte flagged. Read more »

Special audit of PS-DBM deals with Pharmally sought

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 20 08:56 AM

Senator Franklin Drilon on Monday called for a special audit on the multibillion-peso deals between the PS-DBM and Pharmally. Read more »

Ex ‘Davao Death Squad’ members umano tetestigo sa ICC

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 19 07:12 AM

Dalawa umanong dating miyembro ng sinasabing Davao Death Squad ang tetestigo sa imbestigasyon na pinayagan ng International Criminal Court. Read more »

Ilang EJK victims balak bigyan ng masmaayos na libing

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 18 07:58 PM

Binalikan ang puntod ng mga napatay na kaanak matapos mapaso ang renta sa mga apartment-type na nitso para mabigyan ang mga ito ng maayos na libing. Read more »

DOH: Test kits bought via DBM had standard shelf life

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 18 11:30 AM

'That was the standard shelf life of those novel diagnostic test kits at the time. Additionally, test kits are fast-moving stocks that have to be used immediately since we are in a pandemic.' Read more »

Michael Yang's alleged associate denies link to Pharmally

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 17 06:04 PM

An executive of Pharmally Pharmaceutical’s alleged sister company on Friday denied any connection with the embattled firm under inquiry for supposedly supplying overpriced medical goods to the government when the COVID-19 pandemic started last year. Read more »

Text shows Pharmally's advance delivery of 2 million more masks - Hontiveros

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 17 04:37 PM

Pharmally Pharmaceuticals had another supposedly advance delivery of 2 million surgical face masks even before receiving a request for quotation (RFQ), Sen. Risa Hontiveros said Friday, as she grilled officials of the supply company that has been at the center of the Senate's pandemic probe. Read more »

Politics at play in twin probes on Pharmally deal

Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 17 10:16 AM

A political analyst on Friday weighed in on the simultaneous probe of the House of Representatives and the Senate on Pharmally Pharmaceuticals Corp’s multi-billion supply contract with government. Read more »

House hearing sa 'overpriced medical supplies' pinuri ni Duterte

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 08:02 PM

Pinuri ni Pangulong Duterte ang pagdinig ng komite sa Kamara sa umano'y mahal na COVID-19 medical supplies. Read more »

CHR says no role in ICC drug war probe

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 05:41 PM

The CHR noted that in previous ICC investigations, the local human rights agency had "little, if at all" interactions with the international tribunal. Read more »

Duterte wants aides to 'finish story' at Senate probe

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 16 12:41 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte said he wanted two members of his Cabinet to "finish their story" at the ongoing Senate probe into pandemic transactions. Read more »

Let records speak on Pharmally deal— Lacson

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 16 11:35 AM

Senator Ping Lacson said records speak for itself after a former budget official said in the Lower House hearing that the Pharmally supply deal was aboveboard. Read more »

Executive dept can’t bar private individuals from appearing in Senate: Sotto

Benise Balaoing, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 15 03:42 PM

The executive department cannot bar private individuals from appearing at the Senate inquiry into government's alleged overpriced pandemic transactions. Read more »

Duterte can bar Cabinet members from Senate inquiries but...

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 15 02:11 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has legal basis to prohibit members of his Cabinet from attending Senate inquiries but the public will suffer, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said. Read more »

US regulators seek data from 12 automakers for Tesla probe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 08:30 AM

The US highway safety watchdog asked 12 automakers Tuesday to provide data on their driver assistance systems as part of a preliminary investigation of Tesla, whose cars were involved in several accidents with first responder vehicles. Read more »

Lawmaker uncovers 3 other PS-DBM transactions with Pharmally

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 14 10:13 PM

An Immigration lookout bulletin is issued for persons linked to the Pharmally deal being investigated in the Senate. Read more »

Duterte orders Cabinet to get his consent before attending probes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 14 10:03 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte now required his Cabinet officials to get his consent before they attend any congressional probe. Read more »

Duterte to Senate: Crumple Pharmally, I don't care

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 14 04:28 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte said he does not care if the Senate "crumpled" Pharmally that allegedly supplied government with overpriced COVID-19 goods. Read more »

Duterte threatens Gordon: I will campaign against you

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 14 04:22 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte said he would campaign against Sen. Richard Gordon, who is leading an inquiry into government's pandemic transactions. Read more »