A single company with small capitalization bagging an 8.7-billion-peso contract from the government to supply pandemic-related medical supplies naturally raised questions. 

And when it turned out the price of the purchase was padded several times over, it was but natural for senators to dig deeper.

One of them found that executives of this company in question were facing allegations of financial crimes in Taiwan.

Some of them allegedly have close ties with President Duterte, who, by the way, slammed the ongoing Senate inquiry and even insulted a couple of senators.

This episode takes a look at what the investigation has unraveled so far and how far it can go given this pressure from the president.