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Greco Antonious Beda Banta Belgica (born March 27, 1978) is a Filipino politician who most recently served as chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) under the Duterte administration from March to October 2021.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Belgica was elected in the City Council of Manila in 1995. He was picked by then-interim mayor Lito Atienza to be his running mate in 1998 local elections but lost to Danny Lacuna. [1] He attempted to run for vice mayor in 2007 under the Drilon wing of the Liberal Party, [1] but lost to then-councilor and future mayor Isko Moreno. [2]
According to court documents, Gutierrez-Ochoa began working for the Jalisco cartel in 2014 and coordinated the shipment of 40,000 kilograms (88,000 pounds) of methamphetamine and 2,000 kilograms ...
World Cup veterans Guillermo Ochoa, Raul Jimenez and Hirving Lozano missed out on the Mexico squad for the Copa America on Friday. Between the three, they were at 10 World Cups. Ochoa, who will ...
Philippine Truth Commission (G.R. No. 192935) and Lagman, et al. v. Ochoa and Abad (G.R. No. 193036) are the two names of a ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of the Philippines which invalidated the creation of a truth commission tasked to investigate a previous president. The ruling, which was handed down on December 7, 2010, ruled on ...
Drain the swamp vs. reinventing government. There are some major differences in the efforts. Trump wants to “drain the swamp” in a punitive way and tells supporters that the government is ...
The Grepor Butch Belgica Story (also known as The Butch Belgica Story) is a 1995 Filipino biographical action film co-edited directed by Toto Natividad. The film stars Joko Diaz as Butch Belgica, the country’s most notorious delinquent during the Marcos administration. It was one of the entries in the 1995 Manila Film Festival.