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(Eagle News)– Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission Chair Greco Belgica has tested positive for COVID-19. Belgica himself made the announcement in a Facebook post on Friday, Aug. 27. “Nakakalungkot na sa kabila ng ating pag-iingat ay tinamaan pa rin ako ng Covid-19. Tunay ngang hindi biro ang sakit na ito at talagang mapanganib (It’s sad that even after exercising utmost caution, I tested positive for COVID-19. Indeed, this disease is serious and dangerous),” Belgica said. Earlier in […]
(Eagle News) — The P2 billion to P3 billion in funds released by PhilHealth on a weekly basis are “exposed to corruption,” an official of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission said on Tuesday, Aug. 10. Greco Belgica said in a Senate hearing on the allegations of corruption in PhilHealth that this was because the state insurer’s IT system has no mechanism in place to validate claims made by hospitals. “Hindi chinecheck ng PhilHealth kung totoo ang […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would go after the corrupt in PhilHealth. The President issued the warning as the Senate and the House of Representatives continue their hearings on allegations of corruption in the state insurer. Other government agencies are conducting parallel probes into the allegations made by Thorrsson Montes Keith, with the Department of Justice creating a task force for that purpose upon the orders of President Duterte. “Huwag kayong magkakamali. Itong […]
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission will suspend its probe into the Good Conduct Time Allowance mess. The PACC said this was after the Office the President itself ordered the suspension, with a probe into the controversy already being undertaken by the Ombudsman and the Senate. The PACC said the investigation being conducted by the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation is also suspended. The Ombudsman has already suspended over 27 Bureau of […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has slammed the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, which has asked her to explain the implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. In a short statement, De Lima, who, together with then-Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, crafted the IRR in 2014 when she was justice secretary, said in the first place, she does “not recognize the PACC’s jurisdiction or authority over me, a sitting Senator.” “I say to them: […]
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission should stop its probe into the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, and other issues in the Bureau of Corrections. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in an interview over CNN Philippines that the Ombudsman, after all, is already conducting its own probe. “When the Ombudsman takes over, all agencies will have to defer to the Ombudsman, because that is the constitutional body precisely […]
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating two Cabinet secretaries for alleged corruption. PACC Commissioner Greco Belgica made the revelation on Wednesday, Aug. 14, in a Palace briefing. He, however, refused to identify the Cabinet secretaries, saying the probe was still ongoing. He said the results would be submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte as soon as the probe is completed. Belgica said one of the complainants was an official in one of the Cabinet secretary’s […]
Two of their cohorts remain at large, authorities say (Eagle News)–Authorities have arrested two Bureau of Internal Revenue officials for the alleged extortion of P75 million, but their two alleged cohorts remain at large. The suspects, identified as Alfredo Pagdilao Jr., 58, chief assessment officer at BIR-Pasig; Agripina Vallestero, 61, revenue officer; were nabbed in a joint entrapment operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation and the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission on Saturday, July 20. […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Anti-Crime Commissioner Manuelito Luna said that Vice-President Leni Robredo could be impeached for “betrayal of public trust” if she insists on an international inquiry on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. In a statement, Luna warned Robredo about making statements that tend to already judge as guilty of human rights abuses the Philippine government in its conduct of its controversial “war on drugs” campaign. The PACC official said that it was […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippines and China have inked a deal to combat corruption. The deal was signed between Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Dante La. Jimenez, accompanied by PACC Executive Director Eduardo Bringas, and Li Shulei, Vice-Chairman of China’s National Commission of Supervision during the Clean Silk Road Sub-Forum of the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. Under the MOU, the PACC and NCS expect to carry out cooperation in areas of prevention and punishment of […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte can now “directly investigate” and assume jurisdiction of administrative cases filed against presidential appointees. This was after Duterte signed Executive Order No. 73 on December 28. A copy of the EO was released to the media only on Friday, Jan. 11. “Nothing shall prevent the President, in the interest of the service, from directly investigating and/or hearing an administrative case against any presidential appointee or authorizing other offices under the Office of […]
(Eagle News)—-The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission is currently investigating three Cabinet members. The PACC identified them as Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, National Commission on Indigenous People Chair Leonor Oralde-Quintayo and former Customs Commissioner and now-Technical Education and Skills Development Authority director-general Isidro Lapeña. The probe stems from complaints filed against the three, the PACC said, without revealing more details. The PACC findings will be transmitted to President Rodrigo Duterte.
