FVR dictated OK of lease contract —ex-PCSO chief By Angie M. Rosales 07/27/2011

FVR dictated OK of lease contract —ex-PCSO chief

By Angie M. Rosales 07/27/2011
It was on orders of then President Fidel V. Ramos to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chairman and his board to disregard public bidding and the approval of lease equipment agreement, and not necessarily what the PCSO wanted.

This was what former PCSO chairman Manuel Morato disclosed to the senators during the hearing on the PCSO yesterday.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile saw this extended contract as a sellout of the Philippine interest, referring to the extension of the contract and the distribution of lease agreement granted by PCSO to suppliers of lotto machines during the Ramos administration which cost the government an additional P13 billion.

Senate probers were told yesterday, during the continuation of the inquiry into the PCSO fund mess, that Malacañang, under the Ramos administration, “dictated upon” its then chairman Morato to disregard the conduct of public bidding for the extension of another eight years of the lease.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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