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(Former president Benigno Aquino III and former budget secretary Florencio Abad)
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The program was a monumental screw-up that cost the lives of children and inadvertently encouraged the recurrence even of non-dengue diseases (like polio) because it scared so many parents away from any kind of vaccination.
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Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio of the Volunteers against Crime and Corruption and Citizens Crime Watch President Diego Magpantay, on May 10, 2016, filed a complaint against Aquino, former Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, former Budget Chief Florencio Abad, former Health Secretary Janette Garin, and other former health officials.
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Topacio accused Aquino and his co-respondents of pocketing part of the 3.5 billion-peso budget for the procurement of dengue vaccine Dengvaxia from Sanofi Pasteur.
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Here's a summary of the "glaring anomalies and discrepancies" alleged:
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That Aquino III himself met with representatives of Sanofi, the vaccine manufacturer, on at least two occasions abroad, in China and France;
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That his Health Secretary was personally following up the vaccine's application for product registration with the FDA;
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That Aquino III and several of his key Cabinet members, including Budget Secretary Abad and Executive Secretary Ochoa, misappropriated some Ps 3.5-Billion of public funds by allocating them for Dengvaxia, in contravention of the 2015 national budget and to the prejudice of over 800,000 Filipinos who were administered an "untested and unsafe" vaccine; and
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That these same senior officials were accordingly charged with plunder, malversation of public funds, and graft and corruption.
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Former Budget Secretary is generally conceded to be the slippery mastermind behind the misappropriations earlier committed under PNoy's unconstitutional DAP program. And for years, his tiny home province of Batanes enjoyed the highest share of national budget per capita compared to everyone else. 
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We can only hope that the Ombudsman will move more quickly in holding these people to account.
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<strong>Sources</strong>: 
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Compiled from various sources 
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The Dengvaxia vaccine case is still pending with the Ombudsman