00:00Authorities are now holding Christopher Lau, a former budget official,
00:05who was accused of violating the government's formal contract during the pandemic.
00:11Jun Veneracion was arrested.
00:16Almost a week after the warrant of arrest was issued,
00:19PNP-CIDG arrested Atty. Lloyd Christopher Lau in Davao City at 11 a.m.
00:26Undersecretary of Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management,
00:30President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested.
00:33That's why he became the center of the Senate's investigation
00:36in violation of the formal contract of the Pharmaceutical Company during the COVID pandemic.
00:42Yesterday, the people in his house watched him but he didn't go home.
00:46That's why he was arrested just a while ago, around 11 p.m.
00:51He went under the booking procedure in the office of CIDG Region 11
00:56but he was expected to pay P90,000,
00:59equivalent to the case of violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.
01:03The case is equivalent to the violation of some government officials,
01:07including former Health Secretary Francisco Duque III,
01:11who was charged with losing more than P1 billion in funds during the COVID pandemic
01:16from March to December 2020.
01:19All those who have a warrant to arrest should be jailed.
01:23They should go through the booking process and they should be jailed
01:28until they wait for the court's order to release them again because of a spiel.
01:36Now that Lau is under arrest, Senator Riza Ontiveros is hoping that he will admit
01:41who his big boss is who is behind the corruption of billions of pesos in COVID-19 funds.
01:48For GMA Integrated News, Jhon Veneracion, Akatutok, 24 Horas.
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