Whistle-blower at centre of Malaysia graft fight
Malaysians head to the polls in the coming months with the country’s persistent corruption high on the list of public concerns, and few have done more to put it there than baby-faced Rafizi Ramli.
Malaysians head to the polls in the coming months with the country’s persistent corruption high on the list of public concerns, and few have done more to put it there than baby-faced Rafizi Ramli.
A town mayor who ratted on Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr.’s involvement in “jueteng” in the province on Friday filed plunder charges against his erstwhile boss and political ally, alleging that Espino accepted P900 million payolas from operators of the illegal numbers game.
Whistle-blower Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada on Friday welcomed the filing of graft cases against him at the Sandiganbayan as an opportunity to shed light on the allegedly anomalous NBN-ZTE deal during the Arroyo administration.
Almost 10 years after she was mistakenly tagged as part of the P432-million tax scam she herself had exposed, whistle-blower Acsa Ramirez has returned to a normal life—far from the turbulent months she faced after the blunder shoved her into an exhausting fight to clear her name.
A Cebuano whistle-blower has charged two firms owned by tycoon Lucio Tan of allegedly using dummy companies to evade paying taxes worth billions of pesos.
Former US Ambassador to Manila Kristie Kenney is at the center of the furor over the release by WikiLeaks of secret diplomatic cables dispatched by the US Embassy to Washington from 2006 to 2010 during the most tumultuous years of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration. The embassy files were pilfered by WikiLeaks, a group of Internet [...]
Senior Supt. Rafael Santiago, Jr., the police officer who blew the whistle on the operation to steal election returns from the Batasang Pambansa in 2005, on Thursday submitted a sworn affidavit to the Department of Justice in which he claimed that Zambales Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. knew of the raid and was the one who [...]
