Read: PhilHealth’s Contract to Rent a Building Owned by DOH Sec. Duque’s Family

The Philippine Insurance Health Corp. (PhilHealth)’s Regional Office 1 in Dagupan City is leasing a building owned by the family of PhilHealth board chairman and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III.

If this is not conflict of interest, I don’t know what is. Building mo, naka-contract of lease ka, and that is a family corporation,” said Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson, who disclosed the contents of the contract, at the Kapihan sa Senado forum on June 19, 2019.

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Read: Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling outlawing ‘pork’

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As early as 2013, the Supreme Court already ruled that ‘pork’ includes not just post-legislation acts but also “all informal practices of similar import and effect, which the Court similarly deems to be acts of grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction.”

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Read: Supreme Court decision on the Kuratong Baleleng case

Following is the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision dismissing the charges on the Kuratong Baleleng case. Continue reading “Read: Supreme Court decision on the Kuratong Baleleng case”

Read: Supreme Court decision on the Dacer-Corbito case

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Following is the Supreme Court’s 2011 decision affirming the dismissal of the charges on the Dacer-Corbito case:

Related: Court of Appeals decision on the Dacer-Corbito case
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Read: Court of Appeals decision on the Dacer-Corbito case

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Following is the Court of Appeals’ 2011 decision dismissing the charges on the Dacer-Corbito case:

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