Senator Panfilo Lacson yesterday claimed to have discovered another anomaly in the Philippine Health Insurance Corp (PhilHealth) that might involve Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd, which he believes would lead to the filing of a plunder case against the latter.
Asked if he had another expose against Duque, Lacson said, “Yes, there is, and it’s even bigger.”
“This is more serious. It is not only about the lease of his building (by PhilHealth) but the family corporation is again involved in PhilHealth and DoH itself,” Lacson said.
“I’m just waiting for the last document. I have documents already. Most of these documents we receive come from insiders,” he added. The senator said he would share this new information with President Rodrigo Duterte once he gets all the documents.
“It’s substantial. But it would be better if it reaches logical conclusion,” he said.
Pressed whether his would-be expose could be used to file charges against Duque, Lacson said, “It’s definitely plunder. I’m just waiting for one document.”
Lacson said PhilHealth and DoH employees were helping him gather the documents to expose the irregularities in their respective agencies.
“Because they saw that through the years the PhilHealth management misused the money,” he said.
“By their estimate, for the past five years, about P154bn was misappropriated. That’s what they told me,” Lacson added.