The spokeswoman for beleaguered Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation said on Saturday.
The state-run agency is able to tackle the multi-agency task force ‘s inquiry. Then, it was into suspected misconduct inside the company.
“We are ready for the said investigation. And then, we welcome these investigations as a chance to air our side in all these corruption issues.”
On Friday, President Rodrigo Duterte issued a memorandum directing the Department of Justice to create a multi-agency power to probe and conduct lifestyle checks on personnel of the government health insurance agency.
Guevarra reported getting the order the same day, and organized PhilHealth Task Force.
In congressional marathon hearings this week, a resigned officer and a PhilHealth official at the same time made serious allegations of corruption against the agency’s top executives.
Thorrsson Montes Keith, PhilHealth’s fired anti-fraud director. It told a Senate hearing that the corporation robbed about $15 billion. It was from its top executives using numerous illegal schemes.
Furthermore, PhilHealth and chief executive Ricardo Morales refuted Keith’s allegation “in the strongest terms” on Friday.
In the same parliamentary investigation, Alejandro Cabading, a certified public accountant and president of the PhilHealth board reported the data. There were things on the data. In addition, the information and data technology team was at PhilHealth in the 2020 budget that “do not add up.”
Morevoer, some of them were overpricing. Overall, in response, Morales maintained that the IT budget plan was without anomalies.
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