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Several Pharmally officials were questioned by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. President Rodrigo Duterte's adviser Michael Yang was also among those whose role was probed. However, Duterte later barred Cabinet officials from participating in the hearings. The issue led to a word war between President Duterte and Senator Richard Gordon. [1]
Yang Hongming (Chinese: 杨鸿明), [1] more commonly known as Michael Yang in the Philippines, is a Chinese businessman and is an associate of 16th Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Yang was linked in the Pharmally scandal which allegedly overpriced procurement contracts for medical supplies to be used by the Philippine government during ...
Elizaldy "Zaldy" Salcedo Co (born December 8, 1970) is a Filipino businessman and politician serving as a representative for the Ako Bicol Partylist in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 2019.
Alfonso Cusi, Manny Pacquiao, Koko Pimentel Rodrigo Duterte, 2021 PDP–Laban dispute – involving Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and several other personalities for the ousting of its party president, Sen. Manny Pacquiao and its executive vice chairman, Sen. Koko Pimentel on July 17, 2021. This dispute has led to the creation of two factions ...
Pharmally scandal; Philippine drug war; Philippine government response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Proclamation No. 216; Protests against Rodrigo Duterte; Protests during the State of the Nation Addresses of Rodrigo Duterte; Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program
The inquiry exposed anomalies in multi-billion peso contracts awarded to Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation for pandemic supplies, allegedly backed by President Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese adviser Michael Yang. Despite resistance from the Duterte administration, which barred allies from cooperating and launched a counter-investigation ...
Francisco Tiongson Duque III (Tagalog: [fɾɐnˈsisko ˈdukɛ]; born February 13, 1957) is a Filipino physician and government official who served as Secretary of Health in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2017 to 2022, a position he had previously held from 2005 to 2009 in the Cabinet of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. [2]
Critics highlighted that Duterte's administration purchased pandemic supplies from Pharmally Pharmaceutical, a company linked to Duterte's former economic adviser, Michael Yang. Duterte rejected the corruption allegations and emphasized that the supplies at the time of purchase were in high demand, hence, the high prices. [ 321 ]