The Department of National Defense (DND) vehemently denied
allegations that Secretary Voltaire Gazmin sought a "seven percent
commission" in exchange for awarding the Php 1.2-billion refurbished
"Huey" contract to Rice Aircraft Services Inc. (RASI).
"The allegations of Rhodora Alvarez are figments of her
imagination. The SND (Secretary of National Defense) has never asked nor issued
instructions to seek favors from any entities nor manipulate transactions that
would violate the public trust and result in a disadvantage to the
government," DND spokesperson Dr. Reuben Peter Paul Galvez said.
He also said that Gazmin had strict instructions to all DND
officials to avoid acts of impropriety in all their dealings or acts that might
be wrongly perceived.
Alvarez, an employee of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, said
in her sworn statement to the Senate Blue Ribbon committee that she learned
about the alleged “commission” in a “secret” meeting between DND undersecretary
Fernando Manalo and RASI president Robert Rice, Jr., inside the DND official’s
office last Nov. 4, 2013.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=771024
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