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Duterte earlier said he would create a commission to have Carpio-Morales and her deputies investigated for possible abuse of power. The PACC enables the President to conduct lifestyle checks and fact-finding on public officials and employees. [2] [3]
In 2012, President Benigno Aquino said that, according to Transparency International, the factors driving the progress in the Philippines' Corruption Perception Index scores at that time were improved government service and reduced red tape. [8] Between 2012 and 2014, the Philippines's score rose from 34 to its highest-ever score of 38. [9]
Abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of "malfeasance in office" or "official abuse of power", is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties. Malfeasance in office is often a just cause for removal of an elected official by statute or recall election.
2022–2023 Philippine sugar crisis – involving president Bongbong Marcos, former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez and several other officials from the Sugar Regulatory Administration and the Department of Agriculture for the release of Sugar Order No. 4, which directed the importation of 300,000 MT of sugar to the Philippines in August 2022 ...
Impeachment in the Philippines is an expressed power of the Congress of the Philippines to formally charge a serving government official with an impeachable offense. After being impeached by the House of Representatives, the official is then tried in the Senate. If convicted, the official is either removed from office or censured.
Under the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the Ombudsman Act of 1989, the Office of the Ombudsman independently monitors all three branches of the government for political corruption. The Ombudsman "is principally tasked to investigate on its own or upon complaint by any person, in any form or manner, any act or omission of any public officer ...
In June, a federal civil jury ordered Carollo to pay $63 million in damages for using the city government’s resources for his personal desire to infringe upon the free-speech rights of two Calle ...
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary, but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.