MANILA, Philippines—From unwrapping an immigration bribery scheme at the country’s main gateway, which has been christened pastillas scam, to digging into new reports of anomalies at Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) that led to the resignation of its president, the Senate found 2020 to be not only the year of the pandemic but also of scandals.
The year 2020 not only was dominated by news about the pandemic, but also reports about irregularities that found themselves being unmasked in the higher chamber of Congress.
‘Pastillas’ in NAIA
Pastillas is a local soft candy made out of milk, sugar, flour and eggs. It is usually wrapped in wafer-thin paper in different colors…
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