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The Hello Garci scandal (or just Hello Garci), also known as Gloriagate, [1] [2] [3] was a political scandal and electoral crisis in the Philippines involving 14th president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who allegedly rigged the 2004 national election in her favor.
The Stonehill scandal, named after American expatriate businessman Harry Stonehill, [1] was a 1962 bribery scandal in the Philippines which implicated high level government officials, including President Diosdado Macapagal, [2] future President Ferdinand Marcos, [2] [3] former President Carlos P. Garcia, [3] and numerous other top Philippine officials, who were accused of accepting bribes to ...
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport bullet-planting scandal, locally known as tanim-bala ("bullet planting") or laglag-bala ("bullet dropping"), was a scandal in the Philippines that began in September 2015 and lasted until early 2016, in which airport security personnel at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Metro Manila were alleged to have planted bullets in the luggage of ...
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the immediate investigation on the robbery case. [12] [13] The Philippine National Police (PNP) formed Task Force RCBC to handle the robbery-massacre case. [14] Several bounty offers were put forward by various politicians and the RCBC itself in exchange for the arrest of the robbery-massacre's suspects ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elpidio Quirino, the President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953, was alleged to have owned a golden arinola [a] and was subject to controversy. The controversy was addressed in Senate, with Quirino's political opponents unsuccessfully using the scandal as grounds for the president's impeachment. The scandal is attributed to one of the ...
While Conclave is fiction, here have been real-life controversial conclaves throughout history. Here’s a look back at three of the most dramatic ones: Here’s a look back at three of the most ...