Another firm that got big pandemic deals also met with Duterte in 2017 — senator

At a Senate panel hearing held October 28, 2021, Sen. Risa Hontiveros bares photos from a Chinese website showing that the chairman of XCMG, a Chinese pandemic supplier to PS-DBM, met with President Rodrigo Duterte in 2017.

Released / Office of Sen. Hontiveros

MANILA, Philippines — Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group, a foreign pandemic supplier that cornered deals worth P2.23 billion with the government, has ties with President Rodrigo Duterte that go back as far back as 2017, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said Thursday. 

XCMG is the same Chinese firm that told the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee last week that it does not pay income taxes in the Philippines despite the fact that it is the Department of Budget and Management's fourth-most favored supplier as of September 2021. 

The firm's chairman Wang Min met with Duterte in Malacañang on February 27, 2017, according to a post on a Chinese automobile news website that Hontiveros' office found. 

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