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“They should be replaced. All of them” – President Duterte on BI officials over “pastillas scheme”

More BI officials will be sacked over ‘pastillas scheme’ – Duterte

President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday that more officials at the Bureau of Immigration could be sacked due to the “pastillas scheme” under which airport personnel would receive kickbacks in exchange for the assured entry of Chinese nationals.

“I am insisting on the ouster of all involved. I think we have terminated [some of them], but there will be more,” Duterte said in an ambush interview.


“They should be replaced. All of them,” he added. “And I am asking the commissioner of the civil service to give me a list of, first, the grades of all those who passed. Good records scholastically,” Duterte added.

Duterte earlier ordered the relief of all Immigration officials involved in the alleged pastillas scheme.



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