Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala and National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Orlan Calayag were charged with graft and plunder before the Office of the Ombudsman over the questionable importation of P457 million of rice from Vietnam.

In his 10-page criminal complaint, Argee Guevarra assailed the P4.1 billion government-to-government (G2G) transaction between the Philippines and Vietnam from which Alcala and Calayag allegedly got huge kickbacks.

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