The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported on its front page that the Philippine Anti-Corruption Commission intends to charge Kinggoi, Joel, Zaldi, and others with embezzlement.
The Philippine Independent Commission on Infrastructure recommended that six officials, including two sitting senators and one national auditor general, be charged with non-bailable offenses, as the commission found a "kickback scheme" behind the flood control projects.
Flood control project corruption in the Philippines refers to a systemic corruption case exposed in recent years involving public engineering projects, centered around flood embankment projects, with huge amounts of money involved and a large number of "ghost projects" that were never actually started. The case has triggered nationwide protests and exposed issues such as family-based corruption and institutional deficiencies within the Philippine political system.
Large amount of money: The Department of Finance estimates that the economic losses caused by the flood control project corruption exceed 118.5 billion pesos (about 2.08 billion US dollars), with some projects being misappropriated before they were actually started.
Systemic corruption: It involves collusion between contractors and government officials, siphoning funds through inflated budgets and forged contracts, and even the phenomenon of construction funds being siphoned at multiple levels.
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