Rumors are spreading that former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II may be appointed chair of the state-run pension fund Social Security System (SSS), which Aguirre said he heard, too, from Malacañang but which he said was so far just that—a rumor.
The rumor started after Aguirre resigned from the Department of Justice over the controversial dropping of cases against drug lords and other scandals.
“Malacañang told me that,” Aguirre said in a chance interview on Thursday, referring to the rumor about him being appointed to SSS.
“There’s no information yet,” he said. “I don’t know how it came out,” he added.
The post had been vacated by the resignation of lawyer Amado Valdez as SSS chair. —BEN O. DE VERA
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