Aquino administration officials should be charged with graft over the “hasty” P3.5-billion purchase of Dengvaxia, the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) said Thursday. Speaking at the resumption of the Senate hearing on the Dengvaxia controversy, VACC lawyer Ferdinand Topacio said officials of the former administration should be held liable for fast-tracking the purchase which would not have been possible without the green light of then-President Benigno Aquino III. ADVERTISEMENTThe hearing was done jointly by the Blue Ribbon, health and finance committees, which is looking into circumstances surrounding Dengvaxia, an anti-dengue vaccine manufactured by French drug company Sanofi Pasteur. “We have resource persons, this is an investigation in aid of legislation. And we have a rule here in the Senate that we allow resource persons to speak, not counsel,” he added.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 14, 2017 04:30 UTC