{"id":176850,"date":"2018-08-15T02:21:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176850"},"modified":"2018-08-15T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T06:25:15","slug":"gordon-says-ex-tourism-chief-ben-tulfo-liable-60-m-ad-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/15\/gordon-says-ex-tourism-chief-ben-tulfo-liable-60-m-ad-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon says ex-Tourism chief, Ben Tulfo liable for 60-M ad deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chair Richard Gordon believes that former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo and her brother, Ben Tulfo are liable in the controversial multi-million peso advertising deal.<\/p>\n<p>When Teo was then secretary of the Department of Tourism (DoT), the agency granted a PHP60-million advertising contract to Kilos Pronto, a show produced by Bitag Media Unlimited Inc. owned by her brother,\u00a0 Ben Tulfo. The said show is airing on the state-run PTV-4.<\/p>\n<p>This did not sit right with the Commission on Audit (COA) as it viewed that there is a \u201cconflict of interest\u201d in the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Gordon was convinced with COA\u2019s findings, that there is a liability on the part of the Tulfos, PTV-4, and all people involved in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he will still study the matter but as of now he believes a plunder case isn&#8217;t applicable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it will be a case for plunder. In the very first place, the money was used for TV ads, they did not steal the money. They did business, that is the mistake there,&#8221; Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said that a case of graft and corruption could be filed against them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08\/ 15 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chair Richard Gordon believes that former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo and her brother, Ben Tulfo are &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-176850","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\/176850","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=176850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176850\/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=176850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}