WE are all familiar with the mantra of Philippine administrations past and present: laws, rules and regulations should be passed to guarantee 'ease of doing business' at the national and LGU levels, in all the nooks and corners of the country. State-concocted mantras come and go, and most have ended up in the vast graveyard of discarded, state-sponsored propaganda.
One name was prominently mentioned as the facilitator of the entire Pharmally operations, Michael Yang, a Chinese national but a presidential adviser to Mr. Duterte.The sordid saga of Pharmally, the main beneficiary of a squandered P47 billion fund, did not end with the end of the Duterte government. Another Senate inquiry reportedly found evidence — the money movement was verified by authorities — that part of the Pharmally proceeds was invested in a shuttered POGO in Bamban, Tarlac.