Sotto said Duterte might change his mind about keeping Duque in his Cabinet once he finished reading the Senate report on the multibillion-peso fraud that nearly crippled PhilHealth. | MRamosINQ
Duque had said that any future charges against him would give him a chance to clear his name.
“I expect that if the President sees the points we raised, his views will change. He may still trust , but there are infractions of the law that should be made accountable for,” he said. Besides, Sotto said the President had previously let the ax fall even on his close friends in the government who had been implicated in corruption issues, among them former PhilHealth President and CEO Ricardo Morales.
The Senate President reiterated that Duque should be held liable for malversation of public funds as defined under Article 217 of the Revised Penal Code.Sotto said the health secretary’s claim that he had no knowledge of the allegedly anomalous distribution of the P26.8-billion interim reimbursement mechanism , a special financial package for COVID-19, would only prove that Duque had been negligent as PhilHealth board chair.
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