Pharmally’s Ong, Dargani leave Pasay City jail to attend Senate probe on COVID-19 supplies

Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation officials Linconn Ong and Mohit Dargani left the Pasay City jail Friday afternoon to attend the continuation of the Senate investigation into the government’s alleged anomalous procurement of COVID-19 supplies.

In a report, Super Radyo dzBB's Jhomer Apresto said the Ong and Dargani arrived at the Senate around 2 p.m.

JUST IN: Inilabas ngayong hapon sa Pasay City Jail ang dalawang opisyal ng Pharmally na sina Mohit Dargani at Linconn Ong para dumalo sa pagdinig ng senado ngayong hapon. | via @jhomer_apresto @dzbb pic.twitter.com/cjuQ3USigx

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Ong and Dargani were ordered transferred to the Pasay City jail by the Senate blue ribbon committee after they failed to provide the committee the whereabouts of the boxes containing the documents related to the firm’s financial statements.

Ong is Pharmally’s director while Dargani is its corporate secretary and treasurer.

The Senate panel will conduct its 16th day of investigation into the transfer of P42 billion COVID-19 funds from the Department of Health to the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM).

This includes PS-DBM’s purchase of P8.6 billion worth of face masks, face shields, and PPEs from Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation, a firm that only had a P625,000 paid-up capital when it entered transactions with the government.—Hana Bordey/AOL, GMA News