MANILA – The National Food Authority (NFA) announced it is preparing to file a plunder case against a middle-level employee accused of misappropriating around P53 million worth of rice and palay stocks, as the agency enforces a wider…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Radio broadcaster and international boxing judge Edward Ligas has asked the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas to investigate Mandaue City Lone District Rep. Emmarie Dolores “Lolypop” Ouano-Dizon and her husband, Opao…
MANILA, Philippines – Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV filed a complaint for plunder against former President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Bong Go before the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday. Trillanes alleged that Duterte and Go “facilitated corrupt practices, specifically the…
The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division on Friday has acquitted Senator Jinggoy Estrada and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles of plunder in connection with the pork barrel scam. But Estrada was convicted by the anti-graft court division of one count of…
TAGBILARAN CITY — Former Agriculture Secretary and Bohol Governor Arthur Yap and six others face charges of plunder and graft tied to an alleged anomalous purchase of senior citizen health kits valued at P57 million. On Sept.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has relieved City Hall officials tagged in the anomalous P240-million garbage collection mess. Lawyer Collin Rossell, the mayor’s secretary, made this announcement during a press conference on Thursday,…
The Constitution mandates that every decision on the merits of the Supreme Court must “state clearly and distinctly the facts and the law on which it is based.” The most important issues facing the nation often involve…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – A Mandaue City resident has asked City Council members to look into the legality of the 2015 sale of 35, 821 square meters of foreshore land in Barangay Looc to the E.C. Ouano…
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has made another push for the reimposition of the death penalty in the Philippines. In his fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday, Duterte recounted the May 2017 Marawi…
MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III is facing graft and plunder charges in the Office of the Ombudsman over a lease agreement between a company owned by his family and Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Cebu Third District Congressman Pablo John “PJ” Garcia on Tuesday, March 12, filed before the Office of the Ombudsman Visayas a request for investigation for possible plunder of public funds amounting to…
The news of former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr.’s acquittal in the plunder case that accused him of pocketing P224 million in kickbacks from his Priority Development Assistance Fund PDAF is not just an unpopular decision but…
