Duque faces plunder, administrative raps over family’s lease contract with PhilHealth
HEALTH Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd is facing plunder, graft and administrative charges for allegedly allowing his family to transact business with the state-run Philippine Health Insurance Corp.
(PhilHealth), where he is concurrent ex-oficio chairman.
Parents of dengvaxia victims, through the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO), filed their complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman on Monday.
The charges stemmed from Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s expose involving a lease agreement between PhilHealth and Duque’s family, who owns a building in Dagupan City where the state-run firm’s office had been housed.
Duque had denied any “conflict of interest” but PhilHealth, which admitted to the agreement, said that its contract would end in 2019.
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