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The effort gained controversy when Albay Representative Edcel Lagman revealed constituents were allegedly offered ₱100 to ₱10,000 for their signatures. [17] Some constituents also claimed that they were not informed that they were signing forms relating to constitutional change and instead were told that the forms were for government ...
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 ...
Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
The Senate of the Philippines was stirred in a political controversy over the use of the operating expenses of senators, known as the Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE). A report on the Philippine Daily Inquirer on January 9, 2013, which noted that Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile authorized the release of additional operating ...
Feb. 3—The U.S. military's continuing efforts to defuel and ultimately close the underground Red Hill fuel storage facility have sparked an unexpected controversy all the way in the Philippines ...
This complex case began with a complaint filed by the Philippines' Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines (SEC) questioning the unvalidated proxy votes used by the Lopez family in a board election of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco).
The Philippine Supreme Court, in a 2021 ruling, commented on the withdrawal from the Rome Statute and stated that the Philippines still has an obligation to cooperate in the ICC proceedings. [35] The administration of president Bongbong Marcos which succeeded Duterte in June 2022, maintained that the ICC has no jurisdiction in the Philippines. [36]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed criminal charges against Kapa-Community Ministry International and its executives, citing an investment scam. [7] [8] President Rodrigo Duterte was the first government official to announce the legal actions, doing so on June 8, 2019, when he ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to shut down Kapa.