The Commission on Audit (COA) has questioned the Taguig City government about how it spent P144.66 million in community development funds, particularly on two projects worth P76.66 million that did not meet program objectives.
Calapan City Mayor Paulino Salvador Leachon is facing a graft case at the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with the local government’s purchase of allegedly overpriced TV sets, CCTV systems and lampposts worth in excess of P2 million.
After being suspended for six months, Gov. Gwen Garcia was found by the Office of the Ombudsman guilty of grave misconduct, together with five other Cebu provincial officials, for the irregular purchase of the Balili beachfront property in Naga City, Cebu, worth P98.9 million which turned out to be mostly under water.
Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chairman Manuel “Manoling” Morato was arraigned Monday morning at the Sandiganbayan for plunder charges against him over the alleged misuse of P366 million in PCSO intelligence funds.
The Office of the Ombudsman has filed graft charges against Gov. Benjamin Bautista and five other officials of Davao del Sur for allegedly conspiring to purchase five vehicles without public bidding.
The Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division has rejected a call that a consolidated trial be held for former National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) director general Romulo Neri and former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos regarding their alleged part in the controversy-ridden $329-million contract between the government and Chinese firm ZTE Corp. involving a national broadband network project.
The Sandiganbayan on Tuesday dismissed the murder case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman against 10 former and active Navy officers in connection with the death of Ensign Philip Andrew Pestaño on board BRP Bacolod City in 1995 for lack of jurisdiction.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales on Thursday ordered the filing of criminal charges against 22 former officers and executives of state-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and three private individuals, including businessman Roberto Ongpin, in connection with two loans amounting to P660 million granted to his firm in 2009.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has relaxed the rules on public access to the statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) of government officials on file in the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB).
Zambales Rep. Milagros Magsaysay on Wednesday scored the Liberal Party for vilifying Vice President Jejomar Binay and making him choose between President Aquino and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo after Binay’s coalition for the 2013 midterm elections, the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), invited allies of Arroyo and critics of the administration to join its initial senatorial lineup.
The House of Representatives’ prosecution team plans to tap “The Firm” as one of its private lawyers in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona at the Senate.
Don’t call me a liar. Saying she had retained the text messages to back her claim, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s spokesperson Elena Bautista-Horn on Saturday bristled at the accusation of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo that she was lying when she stated that the now Pampanga representative had not been informed about plans to airlift her to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center on Friday.
“This is an inside job,” said Bayan Muna party-list Representative Teodoro Casiño. Casiño and Bayan Muna party-list colleague Neri Javier Colmenares expressed fear that a Commission on Human Rights (CHR) investigation into the reported cases of fake claimants to the compensation fund for human rights victims of the Marcos regime “may be tainted considering that [...]
