PhilHealth exec submits to lifestyle check

MANILA, Philippines — An executive of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has submitted himself to lifestyle check amid an investigation on alleged multibillion-peso corruption anomalies in the agency.

PhilHealth Regional Office 8 division chief Arlan Granali, who had earlier served as acting regional vice president of the office, submitted his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) to the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) yesterday.

Granali personally handed his SALN to PACC commissioner Manuelito Luna.

“As a public servant, I am heeding the order of President Duterte for us to submit to lifestyle check and investigation,” he told The STAR.

“I will submit my assets and bank accounts to the investigation as well. This is the best way to show that I am not hiding anything,” the official stressed.

Granali is the first PhilHealth official to submit to lifestyle check amid alleged anomalies involving the payment of billions of agency funds for the past several years through various schemes like overpayments and “ghost” claims.

A Senate inquiry on the controversy last week showed that an alleged mafia composed of seven suspended executives and one dismissed official was responsible for siphoning payments to the agency in connivance with certain hospitals.