Sotto: Detained Pharmally execs to be released on June 3, 2022

Detained executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. are set to be released next month, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Monday.

“June 3,” Sotto told reporters in a Viber message when asked when will Linconn Ong and Mohit Dargani be freed from Senate custody.

Both are currently at the Pasay City jail after they were cited in contempt after they failed to produce documents related to the company's operations during the Senate Blue Ribbon committee hearings on the government’s use of its coronavirus fund.

Ong has been under Senate custody since September 21, 2021 while after he was cited in contempt for being "evasive" to the questions of senators and "lying under oath."

Dargani, meanwhile, was arrested on November 14, 2021 as he tried to escape the country via a chartered plane at the Davao City International airport.—LDF, GMA News