By John Clifford Lintao
EMBATTLED Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) chief Ricardo Morales and 13 other top executives of the state insurer already signed a waiver allowing the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to check their bank records.
Aside from Morales, other who executed and signed their waives include:
- EVP COO Arnel De Jesus
- SVP Dennis Mas
- SVP Atty. Rodolfo Del Rosario Jr.
- SVP Jovita Argona
- Acting SVP Nerissa Santiago
- SVP Renato Limsiaco Jr.
- SVP Israel Francis Pargas, MD
- VP Oscar Abadu
- Corporate Sec. Atty. Jonathan Mangaoang
- VP Shirley Domingo, MD
- Area VP Walter Bacareza
- Area VP Francisco Soria, MD
- Senior Manager Bernadette Lico
Of this list, nine agreed to sign a waiver during the previous legislative hearing of the committee, it was learned.
Resigned PhilHealth anti-fraud officer Thorsson Montes Keith claimed that the PhilHealth “mafia,” composed of the executive committee, stole some P15 billion through fraudulent schemes, including those involving the Interim Reimbursement Mechanism (IRM(.
PhilHealth, in a statement, has since denied such claims.
The agency and its officials are also under investigation over the agency’s alleged overpriced purchase of an information technology system worth over P2 billion.