{"id":176407,"date":"2018-08-13T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176407"},"modified":"2018-08-13T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T06:12:12","slug":"duterte-dismisses-2-afp-top-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/13\/duterte-dismisses-2-afp-top-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte dismisses 2 AFP top officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Rodrigo Duterte has sacked two top officials from the country&#8217;s military forces over their alleged involvement in corruption, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On August 13,\u00a0<span>Monday<\/span>, the spokesman said that Duterte &#8220;ordered the relief and court-martial proceedings&#8221; against Brig. Gen. Edwin Leo Torrelavega, commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines &#8211; Health Services Command (AFP-HSC) and\u00a0Col. Antonio Punzalan, commander of the V. Luna Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The president made this move after he went through reports that contained information of the supposed corruption committed by the officials.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said that in the report from the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission and AFP chief of staff General Carlito Galvez Jr., the high- ranking officials &#8220;undertook anomalous purchases of equipment and engaged in fraudulent transactions, including ghost purchasing, splitting of contracts to circumvent mandatory bidding processes, and conceiving of fictitious suppliers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just hours before Roque announced the firing of the officials, in an interview with ANC, he said that Duterte was &#8220;really aggrieved at this particular instance of corruption&#8221; because the military institution is &#8220;close to his heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08\/ 13 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has sacked two top officials from the country&#8217;s military forces over their alleged involvement in corruption, Presidential &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}