THE Senate ordered the release of two executives of the Pharmally Pharmaceutical corporation who were cited in contempt for their refusal to cooperate with the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigating the fate of the P40 billion Covid-19 appropriation that was funneled by the Department of Health to the Procurement Service-Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM).
Ordered release by Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd were Mohit Dargani, Pharmally treasurer, and Linconn Ong, Pharmally director.
The two Pharmally executives had been detained at the Pasay City jail since December for their refusal or failure to submit corporate documents to the Senate on their more than P10 billion contracts to supply Covid19 -related medical supplies.
Sotto asked retired Maj. Gen. Rene Samonte, chief of the Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms (OSAA), to deliver his release order to Supt. Ramil Vestra, warden of the Pasay city jail.
Dargani and Ong left the Pasay City Jail this Thursday morning.
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Ong had been under Senate custody since September, 2021 after being cited in contempt for being evasive.
Dargani and his sister, Twinkle, Pharmally president, were arrested on Nov. 14, 2021 as they tried to leave the country aboard a chartered plane at the Davao city international airport.
Both were initially kept at the Senate-OSAA but Twinkle was released under the care of her mother because she was then Covid-19 positive.
Mohit and Ong were later transferred to the Pasay City jail.
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