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Former Director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Dante Gierran is the new president and chief executive officer (CEO) of state-owned Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), reports said Monday evening, August 31, 2020. .
President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Gierran to the post vacated by retired General Ricardo Morales.
Morales resigned on August 26 due to health problems. You are receiving chemotherapy for lymphoma.
He and other key PhilHealth officials are under investigation by Congress and a task force created by Duterte on allegations of corruption.
Gierran served as the NBI City of Davao’s Acting Regional Director from 2013 to 2016. He was appointed to the top NBI position when Duterte took office in 2016.
He retired in February 2020 after reaching the mandatory age of 56.
He was praised for the arrest of Datu Blah Sinsuat Mama Jr., who misrepresented himself as close to former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Gierran was also praised for recovering 158 young women, who were victims of large-scale illegal recruitment, and for solving the theft of P100 million worth of Treasury bills in 1990, among others.
A task force headed by Attorney General Menardo Guevarra, who is also investigating the alleged anomalies at PhilHealth, recommended the reorganization of the state corporation and the creation of an interim management committee.
Guevarra said they hoped to introduce structural reforms at PhilHealth.
The task force, whose members have the power to prosecute and suspend PhilHealth officials who have made mistakes, focuses on the centers of fraud such as the information technology system and the legal sector.
So far, Guevarra said the Office of the Ombudsman has placed 13 former key PhilHealth officials on hold for cases that arose even before the task force was created. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / SunStar Philippines)
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