Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Friday prodded the Senate blue ribbon committee to start the investigation into the alleged “government-sponsored” sugar smuggling.
Unlike the first sugar “fiasco” which only involves the alleged unauthorized issuance of Sugar Order No 4, Pimentel believes the lastest sugar issue, which involved Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, is deeper because the shipments have already arrived in the country.
“Eh di mas malala ito because this is not only a lack of authority in issuing the Sugar Order, there’s not even a Sugar Order and there [are] now some other admin orders to release the sugar, which is not a Sugar Order,” he added. Hontiveros said Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban — who represented President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in the Sugar Regulatory Administration Board — had a January 12 letter addressed to one of the alleged sugar importers of the questioned importation, saying the allocation was “per instruction of Executive Secretary [Lucas] Bersamin.
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