ACT Partylist Rep. France Castro said the investigation on DA and FTI officials over allegations of price manipulation is “long overdue,” noting that issues on purported cartels have been hounding the onion industry for years. | BPinlacINQ
“Magandang imbestigahan din kung bakit DA officials ang palaging nagtutulak na mag-import tayo ng kung anong produktong agrikultural na siya namang nakakasama sa ating mga magsasaka. Ngayon, mag-iimport naman ng sibuyas,” the lawmaker added.
Citing a newsletter from the Department of Justice – Office for Competition in early 2015, Castro said fact-finding investigations conducted by the body “confirmed that collusion and cartel existed in the onion industry.”“Investigations showed that the same personalities as in the garlic case used similar modus operandi to corner import permits as well as manipulate onion supply and its prices,” she added.
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