Saying it cannot just look away, the Office of the Ombudsman on Friday filed a nonbailable plunder case against Sen. Rodante Marcoleta at the Sandiganbayan over the ₱75 million in undeclared campaign contributions he received for the 2025 senatorial elections. Marcoleta was also charged with three counts of violating Presidential Decree No. 46, which prohibits...
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The INC mobilization is a test of Philippine institutions
Public demonstrations often become defining moments not because of the number of people in the streets but because of the constitutional questions they raise. The unannounced mobilization on June 30 involving members of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) following the Ombudsman’s announced plan to charge Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, an INC member, with plunder is one...
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2nd plunder complaint filed against VP Duterte, this time by Trillanes and civil society group
Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV and the civil society group The Silent Majority (TSM) have filed a plunder and malversation complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte that could feed a fresh impeachment case against her, alleging that she misused ₱650 million in confidential funds and received bribes from a suspected drug lord when she was...