Tag: Wanda Teo

Teo says purchased, withdrawn Duty Free items for “corporate accounts”

(Eagle News) — Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo disputed on Wednesday, Aug. 15, the Commission on Audit report she had withdrawn goods and made luxurious purchases of items for herself from Duty Free stores. In a television interview, Teo said the withdrawn items–which COA said amounted to P2.17 million–and purchased items–allegedly amounting to P346,446.80–were for “corporate accounts.” “When somebody would solicit from me, there’s a golf tournament, ‘Kailangan namin ng refrigerator, TV’, you give them. And then […]

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Trillanes vows to file plunder raps vs Teo, 2 Tulfo brothers

Says raps to be filed vs PTV4, Tourism officials, too (Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV vowed to pursue plunder charges against former Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo and her brother, Erwin and Ben, over the tourism ad placement mess. In a statement, Trillanes said he would also hold accountable PTV4 and Tourism officials. “Maliwanag pa sa sikat ng araw na lahat ng elemento ng krimen na plunder ay ginawa ng magkakapatid na sina Ben Tulfo, Erwin […]

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COA: 75% of amount specified in contract between PTV, Teo-led tourism department went to show of Ben Tulfo, her brother

By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Seventy-five percent of the amount specified in the contract between the Department of Tourism then-led by Wanda Teo and PTV4 went to Bitag Media Unlimited Inc., the company of her brother Ben Tulfo. This is according to Norma Aquino, supervising auditor of the Commission on Audit, who appeared before the Senate blue ribbon committee hearing the issue on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Since BMUI received P89.87 million of the contract […]

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Erwin Tulfo on P60-million tourism ad placement contract: “I am not a part of it”

(Eagle News)—Erwin Tulfo on Tuesday, Aug. 14, lashed out at media organizations he said have made it appear in stories that he had a hand in the P60-million tourism ad placement mess. “I am not part of this,” Tulfo said at the Senate blue ribbon panel’s hearing on the issue, referring to the contract between Bitag Media Unlimited Inc., the company owned by his brother Ben, and the  Department of Tourism then-led by their sister, […]

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Tulfo brothers come out with Teo on Senate P60-M ad deal probe; Bitag’s Ben Tulfo downplays COA report

  (Eagle News) — Media personalities, Ben and Erwin Tulfo, attended the senate hearing on Tuesday, August 14, to allegedly clear their names on the P60 million advertising placement of the Department of Tourism with their Bitag Media Unlimited. Ben Tulfo’s Bitag Media Unlimited has been embroiled in the controversial ad placement deal as this was made at the time that his sister, Wanda Teo, was serving as the DOT secretary. Tulfo, like his sister […]

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Kaso vs Tulfo brothers ukol sa Php60-million DOT ads, dadalhin sa Ombudsman

(Eagle News) — Ipauubaya na ng Department Of Tourism (DOT) sa Commission on Audit (COA) ang pagsasampa ng kaso laban kay dating Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo kaugnay ng umano’y kuwestyunableng advertisement deal sa “Bitag” media at PTV 4. Ito ang kinumpirma ni Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat sa pagharap nito sa House Committee On Appropriations para idepensa ang kanilang panukalang P3.044 billion na budget para sa susunod na taon. Ayon kay Romulo-Puyat, kung hindi maibabalik ang […]

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Senate blue ribbon panel to probe DOT’s P60-million ad placement deal

(Eagle News) — The Senate blue ribbon committee will look into the controversial P60-million advertisement placement deal between the Department of Tourism then-headed by Wanda Teo and Bitag Unlimited Inc., her brother’s company. According to Richard Gordon, chair of the panel, they will use as evidence the Commission on Audit report that red-flagged the project. “Di kami basta nag-iimbestiga. Siyempre kinukuha muna namin yung facts of the case, any applicable laws,” he said. He said […]

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Teo lawyer: Return of P60 million in controversial tourism ad placement deal now a “matter between Ben Tulfo and his conscience”

(Eagle News)–The lawyer of former Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo on Monday, July 30, insisted he had been given the go-signal to announce the return of the P60-million payment of the Department of Tourism then-headed by Wanda Teo for the placement of tourism advertisements in her brothers’ program. Ferdinand Topacio made the statement in a radio interview, after Ben Tulfo, who produced the blocktimer program “Kilos Pronto” which received the placements, said he would not return […]

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Trillanes to sue Teo, Tulfo brothers over P60-million tourism ad placement deal

(Eagle News)—Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday, July 30, said he would file charges against former Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo and her brothers for the P60-million tourism  advertisements placement deal. In a statement, Trillanes also called on the Senate blue ribbon committee to act on his resolution calling for an inquiry into the matter so “we could determine the magnitude of corruption, specifically how much more of the people’s money was squandered by the previous […]

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Columnist Mon Tulfo asks Palace to probe siblings Ben, Wanda Teo over “irregular” P60-million ad placement contract

(Eagle News)–Columnist Ramon Tulfo on Saturday, July 14, asked the government to probe his sister, former Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo, and brother Ben over the P60-million advertisement placement contract. “Ben and Wanda may be charged with plunder, a non-bailable offense, for all I care,” he said in his Inquirer column, as he lamented how the incident that saw the Department of Tourism–then headed by Teo– placing tourism advertisements in Ben’s PTV4 program had besmirched the […]

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COA: Teo, former Tourism exec withdrew P2.5 million worth of Duty Free goods

(Eagle News) — Resigned Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo and a former Tourism official ordered the withdrawal of almost P2.52 million worth of goods from Duty Free in 2017, the Commission on Audit found. According to COA, Teo issued memos for the withdrawal of P43,885 worth of items, while Undersecretary for Administration and Special Concerns Rolando Cañizal ordered the withdrawal of items worth P1.37 million. According to COA, Duty Free also withdrew items for the Tourism Department […]

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Ombudsman investigating Teo, others sacked by President Duterte for alleged corruption

(Eagle News) — Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales said they were investigating officials sacked by President Rodrigo Duterte over corruption. In a television interview aired on Monday, June 11, Morales said among those being investigated was former Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo. Teo resigned after the Commission on Audit red-flagged the DOT’s placement of P60 million worth of advertisements in a PTV blocktimer program produced by her brother, Ben Tulfo. The program was also co-hosted by her other […]

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