Former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. is back behind bars, having surrendered to authorities late Monday following the issuance of a warrant for his arrest on charges of graft and malversation in connection with a ghost flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan. He is now being held at the Quezon City male dormitory in Payatas...
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Evidence deemed insufficient after all these years: Enrile et al. cleared in ₱10B pork barrel scam
Distressing is the news that Juan Ponce Enrile and 34 others had been cleared of graft charges in connection with the ₱10-billion pork barrel scam exposed by the Inquirer in 2013. It aggravates Filipinos’ growing impatience with ongoing official inquiries into the raging trillion-peso corruption scandal involving flood control and other infra projects. It seems...
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Who else benefited from the diversion of taxpayer money to graft-ridden public works projects?
The practice of diverting funds from education, health, poverty alleviation and other programs to graft-ridden public works projects, including flood control, also benefited congresspersons, senators, the Vice President and the President, who have seen their budgets surging over the past several years. This is the observation stated by the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) in...