Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 10:57:53 +0000
The security escorts of the Tulfo brothers were recalled for evaluation, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Sunday.
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(Editor’s note: The following letter to the editor deals with the ongoing case involving former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo and her brothers Ben and Erwin. It was written by one of their siblings.) Type the word ‘TULFO’ in the digital space and an algorithm of countless information is at one’s fingertips. In the not too […]
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Former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo and her brothers, Ben and Erwin, were told point-blank that there was conflict of interest in an advertising deal for which Ben’s media outfit earned P75.8 million from the Department of Tourism (DOT) last year.
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Read moreFORMER Tourism secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo on Tuesday admitted that she was “not aware” that her brothers were behind the company that negotiated a P60-million tourism ad contract with the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) and that they were the hosts of the program where the ad appeared on state-run PTV-4. Teo made the admission before the Senate […]
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Read moreFORMER Tourism secretary Wanda Teo on Tuesday maintained that there was “nothing illegal” in the P60 million television advertising contract between the Department of Tourism (DoT) and the company, which her brothers run. Teo stressed this at the start of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigation into the controversy. “There was nothing illegal in the said contract. It […]
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Read moreTOURISM 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 […]
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The Commission on Audit (COA) reported in April that the Department of Tourism, under then Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, had paid P60 million for ads in “Kilos Pronto,” a public service program on state-run PTV 4 produced by Bitag Media Unlimited Inc., a company owned by her brother Ben Tulfo, who also cohosts the program with his brother Erwin.
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Read moreSEN. Antonio Trillanes 4th is considering filing plunder charges against the Tulfo siblings for their alleged refusal to return the P60 million paid to them by the government for airing tourism promotion projects in their television program. The senator’s statement stemmed from Ben Tulfo’s announcement that he would not return the money, no matter what […]
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The decision to return the P60 million – which the Department of Tourism paid to Bitag Media Unlimited for the airing of its advertisements – is up to television host Ben Tulfo’s “conscience,” a lawyer said Monday. Atty. Ferdinand Topacio was asked by radio DZMM to respond to Tulfo’s statement on Facebook that he would […]
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