MANILA, Philippines — The Senate will recommend the filing of complaints against some officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) including its president and CEO Ricardo Morales. “Yes,” Senator Panfilo Lacson said in a text message to INQUIRER.net on Sunday when asked if the Senate will recommend the filing of complaints against some PhilHealth officials including its CEO, after the Senate Committee of the Whole decided to end the hearings on alleged anomalies in the state insurer. ADVERTISEMENT“He (Morales) and the other accountable officers will have to face several counts of malversation of public funds, as I understand it,” Lacson also said. He added that official records of PhilHealth have established that more than P14 billion were already disbursed to healthcare institutions as of June 9. However, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, chairman of the Committee of the Whole, refused to confirm this information.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 23, 2020 07:10 UTC