Tulfos to face charges if P60M won’t be returned, says Tourism chief
TOURISM Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat gave her predecessor and her siblings six months to return the P60 million payment for advertising placements on their television program aired over state-run PTV-4 or charges would be filed against them before the Office of the Ombudsman.
Romulo-Puyat issued the warning when she presented her department’s proposed P3 billion budget for 2019 before the House of Representatives’ appropriations panel chaired by Rep. Karlo Nogarles of Davao City on Wednesday.
The P60 million fund mess prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to fire Wanda Tulfo Teo and appointed Romulo-Puyat to take her place. Subsequently, Romulo-Puyat ordered the auditing of all DOT contracts involving advertising placements and financial sponsorships where she discovered the agreement between Teo’s brothers, Ben and Erwin Tulfo, and the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) for the airing of tourism ads on their program “Kilos Pronto.”
The Tulfos, however, through Ben, refused to return the money and maintained that the contract was valid.
“Sa mga nagsasabing isauli ang pera at hinihintay daw ang 60-M, mamuti na mga mata niyo! Wala kaming isasauli,” Ben Tulfo said in a video posted on Facebook.
(To everyone saying that that we should return the P60M, your eyes can go white, we won’t return anything.) LLANESCA PANTI
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