Malacañang on Thursday said an investigation is being mounted over the "unauthorized" signing of a resolution, which authorizes the importation of additional 300,000 metric tons of sugar into the country on top of what had already been imported in May of this year.
Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles made the announcement in a press briefing earlier. She did not disclose which Palace office will be conducting the probe on the document, which was uploaded on the website of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA).
The document has since been taken down from the SRA website.
"This resolution is illegal. The chairman of the Sugar Regulatory Board is President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. As such chairman, he sets the date of any meetings and convening of the Sugar Regulatory Board and its agenda. No such meeting was authorized by the President nor such a resolution was likewise authorized," Cruz-Angeles said.
President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. had rejected the proposal to import the sugar shipment.
The Palace made the pronouncement just shortly after the “illegal resolution” was uploaded to the SRA website
