According to Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., the issue is still being taken up by the DND’s legal office—more than a year after the transaction to procure MI-17 heavy-lift helicopters for the PAF was closed in November 2021. READ:
According to Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., the issue is still being taken up by the DND’s legal office—more than a year after the transaction to procure MI-17 heavy-lift helicopters for the Philippine Air Force was closed in November 2021, and the advance payment of P1.9 billion was made in January 2022.“We’re studying our legal options. We have made the down payment and it is a legal issue.
“That is a purely legal question already … on the fulfillment or nonfulfillment of a contract, so we have to study the best legal option as to the way forward,” he added.
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