“A new Commission on Audit report questioned the validity of P479-million worth of COVID-19 relief goods that the Quezon City government procured in 2020.”
What Vera Files found
The audit report cited was published on the Commission on Audit website on July 19, 2021, or eight months ago, according to the agency's database. The report did not say it found violations of procurement laws in the transactions. In fact, lawyer Resurreccion Quieta, COA’s state auditor for Quezon City, gave the local government unit an “unmodified opinion” for 2020, the highest rating the city has received at least in the past 10 years.
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In short
Michael “Mike” Defensor made this claim around 23 January 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 31 January 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Michael “Mike” Defensor has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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