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PhilHealth, private healthcare officials slapped with charges THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Monday filed new criminal and administrative complaints against officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) over alleged irregularities in a financial assistance program for health care institutions hammered by “fortuitous” events like the coronavirus pandemic. The NBI filed the complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman against resigned PhilHealth president and...

The NBI is ready to investigate the alleged unauthorized importation and use of COVID-19 vaccines even as it has yet to receive the written order from the Department of Justice to do so, NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin said on Saturday.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) assured Saturday that no government officials will be spared from its investigation into the illegal importation and use of vaccines against COVID-19.

ACT-CIS Rep. Eric Go Yap (Photo via PNA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) ACT-CIS Partylist Rep. Eric Go Yap told reporters that he will have PACC Commissioner Greco Belgica subjected to a congressional inquiry in connection with the alleged whitewashing of the PACC probe into alleged irregularities within the Duty Free Philippines Corp. “Kaya magkakaroon ng House inquiry sa Duty Free because it is my job as a congressman to initiate it.  Once and for all we want to make sure na ang tagabantay...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The suit alleges that the employees’ actions earned the company $18.6 million and that, although Teva dismissed 11 employees following an internal investigation of corrupt practices, it did not put a stop to illegal activity by its employees and did not enforce its anti-corruption policies. According to the complaint, a Teva employee who oversaw its operations in Mexico wrote a memo acknowledging that the company could not rule out that...

Published December 22, 2020, 3:22 PM Former Baganga Municipal Administrator Ruben Postrero of Davao Oriental has been acquitted by the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division of a graft charge involving the emergency purchase of vehicle parts back in 2004. Postrero is one of the co-accused of Mayor Gerry Morales in the case for violating Section 3(e) of R.A. 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.  Both of them were charged together with Municipal Engineer Roseller Macayra, Municipal Accoun...

Sursa foto: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea The plenum of the Chamber of Deputies approved, on Tuesday, the numerical and nominal composition of the permanent committees. The permanent committees of the Chamber are the following: * Committee for Economic Policy (chaired by the Social Democrat Party - PSD) * Committee for Budget-Finance (chaired by the National Liberal Party - PNL) * Committee for Industries and Services (chaired by the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania - UDMR) * Committee for T...

Odebrecht to pay dearly for bribery crimes One of the companies at the focus of Operation Car Wash, the Brazilian bribery mega-scandal, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate US bribery law. The penalty may reach billions of dollars. Brazil-based conglomerate Odebrecht, which was involved in the Operation Car Wash kickbacks scandal in Brazil, pleaded guilty in a US court on Wednesday to conspiring to violate US foreign bribery laws. Odebrecht and its subsidiaries are expected to pay fi...

SunStar + December 19, 2020 A CEBU-BASED businessman has filed graft and corruption charges against two Cebu City prosecutors before the Office of the Ombudsman Visayas for alleged extortion and using their positions to favor certain personalities in some cases they have handled. In his four-page complaint, businessman Mark Yu said Cebu City Prosecutors Liceria Lofranco-Rabillas and Gandhi Truya committed grave misconduct and violated Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: How will the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States impact Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement? How busy was the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...