MANILA, Philippines — Caloocan Third District Rep. Dean Asistio was the subject of a complaint filed before the Office of the ...

The dike meant to protect the Philippine town cost taxpayers nearly US$2 million, but when a minister visited this month, he found little more than dirt hastily dumped along the river's banks.

MANILA, Philippines — Former Caloocan Mayor Rey Malonzo filed before the Ombudsman on Thursday charges of graft, malversation, and falsification of public documents against Caloocan Rep. Dean Asistio ...

The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered Senator Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero to answer allegations linking him to the flood control mess, Assistant Ombudsman ...

View of Tehran, Iran. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons license CC By 2.0 and Maxim Sinelshchikov Since Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022, the country has spent ...

When a multi-billion-peso flood control corruption scandal comes to light, the public rightly demands accountability. Last year’s revelations of ghost projects, padded billings, and misappropriated ...

A COURT case involving an alleged P96.5-million “ghost” flood control project took a significant turn Tuesday, April 28, 2026, as a former employee testified ab ...

Philippine authorities have arrested nine people, including construction executive Sarah Discaya, dubbed the country’s “flood control queen,” on allegations of large-scale corruption involving ...

HOUSE Deputy Minority Leader Antonio Tinio has urged the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate the alleged anomalous P4.4 ...

Instead of a flood control infrastructure, overgrown vegetation is seen in a riverbank during the Sandiganbayan Third Division’s ocular inspection at Barangay Bunsuran in Pandi, Bulacan on April 15, ...

The flood control corruption shows the evolution of the pork barrel system, with funds taking new forms such as 'allocables,' 'leadership funds,' and 'insertions,' even extending to unprogrammed ...

HOUSE of Representatives Deputy Minority Leader Antonio Tinio has asked the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate the ...