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By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published January 21, 2021 11:10am The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)  preferred not to directly address the graft complaint filed against Governor Benjamin Diokno and other central bank officials as respondents will answer it in an appropriate setting. Aside from Diokno, named as respondents were Prudence Angelita Kasala, Rogel Joseph del Rosario, Carl Cesar Bibat, Marianne Santos, Salvador del Mundo, and Giovanni Israel Joson. Fulgencio accused the respondents of giving the winning bidder undue advantage as they required all bidders to procure raw materia...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 21) – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno and other BSP officials are facing a graft complaint filed with the Ombudmsman over the alleged anomalous awarding of a multi-million-peso contract to a certain firm for the lease of equipment related to the production of national ID cards. Complainant Ricardo Fulgencio IV, chairman of Stop Corruption Organization of the Philippines Inc., alleged that Diokno and fellow respondents “favored” OVD Kinegram AG and awarded it a deal totalling ₱1.75 billion without public bidding for...

Bill filed to institutionalize agreement limiting police, military presence inside UP campuses nationwide A MEASURE that will institutionalize the 1989 agreement between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) that limits military and police presence in UP campuses nationwide has been filed in the Senate. Bill No. 2002 will amend Republic Act No. 9500, the University of the Philippines Charter of 2008, to prevent the entry of security forces in the facilities of the country’s biggest state-run academic institution without prior authorization from ...