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Examples of corruption in the Philippines include graft, bribery, cronyism, nepotism, impunity, embezzlement, extortion, racketeering, fraud, tax evasion, vote buying, lack of transparency, lack of sufficient enforcement of laws and government policies, and consistent lack of support for human rights.
GSIS-Meralco bribery case – controversy involving Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Conrado Vasquez, Justices Vicente Roxas and Jose Sabio, for the allegations of bribery. 2008 Philippine National Broadband Network controversy – (also referred to as the NBN/ZTE deal or NBN/ZTE mess) involved allegations of corruption in the awarding of a ...
CBCPNews, of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, said "the Ateneo de Manila Law School found the bribery allegations against Sabio as “incredible.” Consumer group National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reform (Nasecore), meanwhile, said "Sabio’s revelations affirmed that Meralco does not play by the books on ...
The Philippine Truth Commission was created to find out the truth about reports of large scale graft and corruption in the previous government; to put a closure to them by the filing of the appropriate cases against those who were involved. Furthermore, to deter others from committing such crimes and to restore the people's faith and confidence ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bribery is part of human life, and it is a part of civilization. No matter where you live, you will see bribery happening, either […] Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 biggest bribery cases ...
In the martial law-era 1973 Philippine Constitution (Sections 5 and 6, Article XIII), provided for the establishment of a special court called the Sandiganbayan and an office of the ombudsman called the Tanodbayan. [5] On June 11, 1978, during martial law, the late President Ferdinand Marcos created by presidential decree the office of the ...