MALACAÑANG is conducting its own separate investigation of the allegedly anomalous P8-billion e-passport project of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) over discovery that the project was illegally sub-contracted to a questionable private entity, according to a party-list lawmaker.

The 10-year contract for the printing of passports had been awarded by the DFA to APO-Printing Unit (APO-PU), a quasi-government entity, which, in turn, sub-contracted it to privately-owned United Graphic Expression Corp. (UGEC).

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