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A "dictator" if he steps in, "indifferent" if he stays out.

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President Marcos carried out yet another change in his Cabinet, with Transportation Secretary Giovanni Lopez and Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon swapping posts, in an arrangement supposedly meant to solve commuters’ woes and sustain reforms in a system that “protected” corruption.

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The Office of the Ombudsman has filed malversation and graft charges before the Sandiganbayan against six Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region XII personnel over their alleged involvement in a P491.9-million road right-of-way scam in General Santos City.

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The high court said COA and the Ombudsman exercise separate constitutional mandates, and one agency’s unfinished proceedings do not suspend the other’s work.

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The Sandiganbayan Third Division has ordered the preventive suspension of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta from his post as a senator due to plunder charges.

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KAHAPON (Oktubre 12), nanawagan si Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla sa Supreme Court na balikan ang 2016 doctrine sa Macapagal-Arroyo v. People. Ayon sa kanya, nagpapahirap ito sa paghabol sa malalaking corruption syndicates.

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During his first annual report delivered at the Office of the Ombudsman on Monday, October 12. Remulla said that 35 flood control cases have been filed in the Sandiganbayan, while 4 are being prosecuted in the Regional Trial Courts.

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In his first year at the Office of the Ombudsman, Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla has urged the Supreme Court to revisit the anti-plunder law.

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Vice Mayor Harold Respicio of Reina Mercedes, Isabela must present proof that the share of the local government in tobacco excise tax is being used for ghost projects, Malacañang said yesterday.

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In a resolution dated October 5, the Commission Proper upheld the Notice of Disallowance, worth P73,287,000.00, which flagged the OVP's confidential spending from December 21 to 31, 2022. 

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President Marcos carried out yet another change in his Cabinet, with Transportation Secretary Giovanni Lopez and Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon swapping posts, in an arrangement supposedly meant to solve commuters’ woes and sustain reforms in a system that “protected” corruption.

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The Office of the Ombudsman has filed malversation and graft charges before the Sandiganbayan against six Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region XII personnel over their alleged involvement in a P491.9-million road right-of-way scam in General Santos City.

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The Sandiganbayan Third Division has ordered the preventive suspension of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta from his post as a senator due to plunder charges.

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During his first annual report delivered at the Office of the Ombudsman on Monday, October 12. Remulla said that 35 flood control cases have been filed in the Sandiganbayan, while 4 are being prosecuted in the Regional Trial Courts.

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In his first year at the Office of the Ombudsman, Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla has urged the Supreme Court to revisit the anti-plunder law.

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Vice Mayor Harold Respicio of Reina Mercedes, Isabela must present proof that the share of the local government in tobacco excise tax is being used for ghost projects, Malacañang said yesterday.

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In a resolution dated October 5, the Commission Proper upheld the Notice of Disallowance, worth P73,287,000.00, which flagged the OVP's confidential spending from December 21 to 31, 2022. 

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