OFFICIALS of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) are being implicated in the P547-million overpricing of a shipment of rice from Vietnam in April.

In a statement, activist and lawyer Argee Guevarra on Thursday said industry sources have provided him proof that on top of the 187,000 metric tons of rice it imported, the NFA inserted purchases of another 18,700 metric tons without approval from the Department of Finance under the Fiscal Incentive Review Board (FIRB), illegally increasing the volume of the grains import to 205,700 metric tons.

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