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In 2024, Garma would be linked to the August 2016 killings of three Chinese inmates at the Davao Prison and Penal Farm (DPPF) during inquiries by the House of Representatives of the Philippines on the Philippine drug war. DPPF head Gerardo Padilla alleged that Garma had coerced him to cooperate in the killings of the three Chinese nationals. [20]
Pharmally scandal – involving Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and several other officials including Michael Yang, Lloyd Christopher Lao, Linconn Ong and Krizle Grace Mago for the alleged overpriced purchase of face masks, face shields and other medical equipment to the government in August 2021. [35] 2022 Executive: Department of Agriculture
The man claimed that they were asked to repack deformed and dirty face shields and to replace the certificates of face shields dated 2020 with new certificates dated 2021. He said the practice was observed from August 2021, the time he was hired until the month the video was presented. Hontiveros said that the man made those claims under oath. [17]
Philippine author Hermie Rotea wrote in his book on the scandal that Beams, besides weakening Marcos' status, had had a positive influence of empowering modern women in Philippine society: “In the beginning, (birth-control pills) were banned because of their alleged harmful effects and the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church. But Dovie ...
On June 22, 1994, during the 1994 Manila Film Festival awarding ceremonies in Manila, Philippines, hosts, actress and beauty queen Ruffa Gutierrez, her brother—actor Rocky Gutierrez, actress Nanette Medved, and Mauritian beauty queen Viveka Babajee read an erroneous set of winners for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, which included Gutierrez herself, in a manner that raised ...
He faces similar criminal cases in the Philippines, where he was arrested on Sunday, after a weeks-long search of his church's sprawling 30-hectare (74-acre) compound in the southern city of Davao ...
List of political scandals in the Philippines; 0–9. 2013 Senate of the Philippines funds controversy; 2016 Davao prison killings; 2022–2023 Philippine onion crisis;
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...