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Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday urged Lloyd Christopher Lao, the former officer-in-charge of the Department of Budget and Management - Procurement Service , to name the "big boss" behind the controversial COVID-19 supplies procurement.Hontiveros, one of the senators who actively participated in the Senate's investigation on the Pharmally scandal during the 18th Congress, made the statement after Lao was arrested in Davao City earlier in the day.
Lao and his cohorts: Michael Yang, Mohit and Twinkle Dargani, Lin Weixiong, and Linconn Ong among others conspired to plunder more than 11 billion pesos," he noted.Gordon also stood by his report as the Senate Blue Ribbon committee's chairman that Duterte should be liable on the Pharmally controversy."They conspired to steal the money. Anti-Money Laundering Council failed to do its job by not following the money trail given the amounts involved.
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