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Procurement & distribution

Pandemic-supply reporting and procurement disputes, with company responses and role-specific outcomes.

In plain language: Start with the summary, then open the records that answer your question. Check who supplied each fact, when it was checked and what remains unknown.

How these records fit together

Parliamentary questions, company statements and tribunal rulings establish different things. XCMG may be a supplier or a complainant; a sanction against another company is not an XCMG sanction.

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Media and related records

External coverage provides context. Repeated allegations do not become independent findings.

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Documents behind this guide

Another firm that got big pandemic deals also met Duterte in 2017 — senator

Original article read. Senator’s statements during Senate Blue Ribbon proceedings are attributed concerns, not a final tax assessment or corruption finding. Different contract figures from other datasets are not combined.

Let BIR have final say on Chinese firm’s tax liabilities, says Risa

Original article body read. Records Senator Hontiveros’s position that BIR should decide and company counsel Kim Baltazar’s denial and international-trade explanation. No final BIR assessment or court determination retrieved.

Pharmally, 29 other firms bagged 42% of P 65-B pandemic supply projects

Investigative data reporting using government procurement databases. Coalition analysis, not an official tax assessment. The dataset and dates differ from later Senate reporting; do not merge PhP 1.9 billion and PhP 2.23 billion as one audited total. Original contract rows not independently re-audited.

Chinese Firm In P 1.6-Billion PPE Mess Denies Tax Evasion

Original reporting carrying company counsel response. The company’s legal position is attributed, not endorsed as the tax law outcome. No final BIR assessment or court decision was reviewed. Direct-open cache miss but primary-host search supplied full article body.

徐工机械回应子公司被暂停军采:与处理部门没有业务合作

Reporting of procurement suspension and company response. No stable official PLA notice, duration, appeal, lifting or extension verified. Do not call this a blanket equipment-procurement ban, criminal finding or verified administrative penalty. Company reply remains attributed. Qualified Chinese translation review pending.