Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair Francis ‘Tol’ N. Tolentino said several issues hounding the controversial botched large-scale importation of sugar have yet to be resolved.
The planned importation of 150,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar would still be reviewed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., according to Malacañang.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Tuesday denied that it conducted a series of raids over warehouses of suspected sugar hoarders across the country.
Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez was a no show during second hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee in connection with alleged irregularities behind the aborted importation of 300,000-metric tons of sugar in the country.
Leocadio Sebastian remains an undersecretary in the Department of Agriculture despite resigning earlier due to the anomalous sugar importation fiasco.
Malacañang has vowed to assist small supermarkets affected by the rising sugar prices after major supermarkets in the country agreed to slash their selling price to P70 per kilogram.
Malacañang has vowed to assist small supermarkets affected by the rising sugar prices after major supermarkets in the country agreed to slash their selling price to P70 per kilogram.
Six Customs officials have been relieved for their supposed involvement in the smuggling of sugar at the Port of Subic, Malacañang announced Wednesday.
The heightened effort of the national government in the campaign against reported hoarding of sugar has reached Mindanao, Malacañang said Wednesday.
Malacañang said it will wait for the result of the congressional probe into the sugar importation issue.
