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A few months ago, a senate inquiry was launched on an alleged breach of ethics involving a pharmaceutical firm that was allegedly offering lucrative incentives for doctors to prescribe its medicine, which could be unwittingly unnecessary or more expensive for patients. The company faced scrutiny as well after purported whistleblowers exposed a multi-level-marketing scheme it reportedly employed that also sought to recruit doctors.
MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:18 p.m.) — Jimmy Guban, a former Customs officer who served as a key witness in a shabu smuggling controversy under former President Rodrigo Duterte, has resurfaced to confess that it was Rep. Paolo Duterte (First District, Davao City), Manases Carpio and Michael Yang who owned the magnetic lifters that were found to have concealed P11-billion worth of illegal drugs in 2018. Guban told the House quad-committee on Friday during its first inquiry that he lied about the persons responsible for the illegal shipment of shabu during his testimony to the Senate in 2018 because of threats to his and his family's life. The embattled former Customers intelligence officer took back his testimony six years ago to implicate three people with ties to the former president: president's eldest son, Vice President Sara Duterte's husband, and the president's former economic adviser. Alongside his bombshell admission, Guban also recanted his statement accusing former police official Eduardo Acierto of owning the P11-billion shabu shipment during his trial for charges related to importing dangerous drugs. For this case, he was sentenced to life imprisonment last year. All this was bared before the House mega-panel, which was created to fuse together the investigations being conducted by four House committees: dangerous drugs, public order & safety, human rights and public acounts.
BACOLOR, Pampanga — A combination of four committees at the House of Representatives on Friday issued a show cause order against several individuals, including former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque's former "executive assistant," for snubbing its joint inquiry into the connection of Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGO) and the illegal drug trade.
LARGO, United States — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made an upbeat show of unity Thursday as they held their first joint public event since Harris replaced the president as the Democratic Party's candidate in November's election.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte on Thursday she is ready to be the first public official to submit to a hair follicle drug test, adding that she supports her brother's bill at the House of Representatives to compel all elected officials to undergo "mandatory random" drug testing.
MANILA, Philippines — A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey found that net satisfaction ratings of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court fell in the second quarter of 2024.
A SENIOR office of the Philippine Navy has been named vice commander, the second highest official in the major service command.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.Vice President Sara Duterte could be realizing this by now... or maybe not. Her father has said she is stubborn as a mule. She’s either determined to make her point, or, if her critics in the education department are correct, she’s simply a slow learner.