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Palace denies turning blind eye on POGO woes

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 18 06:05 PM

Malacañang denied Tuesday that it was ignoring reported anomalies hounding Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) in light of allegations that local immigration personnel receive bribes from Chinese nationals who enter the country to illegally work in the industry. Read more »

5 Immigration officials relieved in 'pastillas' modus probe

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 18 10:32 AM

Five officials of the Bureau of Immigration have been relieved as authorities looked into an alleged bribery scheme involving bureau personnel and Chinese workers in the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) industry. Read more »

Immigration personnel tagged in 'pastillas' modus should face wealth check: senator

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 18 11:28 AM

Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday urged authorities to conduct a lifestyle check on Bureau of Immigration (BI) personnel who allegedly receive "service fees" from Chinese nationals who enter the country. Read more »

Philippine senator bares alleged bribery scheme for entry of Chinese workers in POGOs

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 17 02:35 PM

Philippine immigration personnel and relevant local handlers, including members of alleged syndicates, are receiving "service fees" from Chinese nationals who enter the country as tourists but work in the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) industry, a senator said Monday. Read more »

Impartiality afforded: PNP chief says won't name narco-list cops

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 13 11:14 AM

MANILA - The country's top police official said on Thursday that he would not name 357 police officers on President Rodrigo Duterte’s “narco-list”. ""I want them to enjoy the impartiality that they should be afforded," he said.  Read more »

Napoles signs court order kicking off Enrile graft trial

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 12 03:23 PM

Former businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, after repeated absences, finally signed Wednesday a court order that allowed the start of the graft trial against her and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.  Read more »

Duterte: I cannot stop corruption

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 10 11:16 PM

More than halfway through his term, President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that he cannot stop corruption, as he sought the help of businessmen to help minimize it by reporting corruption incidents. Read more »

Malaysia's former first lady goes on trial for corruption

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 05 07:10 PM

Rosmah Mansor, notorious for making overseas shopping trips and owning vast collections of handbags and jewelry, became a lightning rod for public anger as the government of prime minister Najib Razak was engulfed by corruption allegations. Read more »

Senate panel recommends filing charges vs Faeldon, BuCor officials over GCTA mess

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 05 06:35 PM

MANILA - A Senate panel has recommended the filing of charges against former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Nicanor Faeldon and 6 other officials in the national penitentiary for violations of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act after they allegedly accepted payments for the early release of some inmates.    Read more »

3 BuCor execs face graft, direct bribery raps over GCTA controversy

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 29 07:08 PM

Three Bureau of Corrections officials will face direct bribery and graft charges in connection with a P50,000 bribe they supposedly demanded and received for the release of an inmate over the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Read more »

Sandiganbayan orders presence of Enrile, Reyes, Napoles for signing pre-trial order

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 05:37 PM

The Sandiganbayan Third Division ordered former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile to appear in court Wednesday for the signing of the pre-trial order for his graft cases in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam.   Read more »

Lowest score in years: Philippines drops 14 notches in 2019 global corruption index

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 23 08:09 PM

The 2019 ranking is worse than its 2017 score, when it recorded its lowest score of 34 in five years and slipped 10 places to rank 111th.   Read more »

Document trove shows how 'Africa's richest woman' stole fortune: ICIJ

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 20 06:44 AM

An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files Sunday allegedly showing how the daughter of Angola's former president -- dubbed Africa's richest woman -- siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money into offshore accounts.  Read more »

Incoming PNP chief urged to eradicate 'culture of wrongdoing' within police force

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 18 02:21 PM

Eradicating the "culture of wrongdoing" should be the top priority of Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa as he takes the helm of the Philippine National Police, an agency tasked to administer and control it said Saturday.   Read more »

Trump tried to kill anti-bribery law, new book alleges

Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times
Posted at Jan 16 08:15 AM

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wanted to strike down a law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials, calling the ban “so unfair” to American companies, two Washington Post reporters recount in a new book. Read more »

Vico Sotto refutes kickback claims on giveaway calendars; challenges 'trolls' to reflect on chosen job

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 12 01:42 AM

Social media posts had claimed that Sotto's office paid a whopping P36.7 million for the calendars' printing costs. Read more »

PNP to intensify cleansing after Duterte cites 'embedded corruption'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 11 05:08 PM

In a phone interview on Saturday, PNP officer-in-charge Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa said they have programs for internal cleansing to put an end to corruption allegations against its members. Read more »

China's Communist Party expels ex-chairman of China Development Bank

Reuters
Posted at Jan 11 02:10 PM

A former chairman of the China Development Bank, Hu Huaibang, has been expelled from the country's ruling Communist Party for serious violations of discipline, the party's graft watchdog said on Saturday. Read more »

OPINION: Enjoy the Games, don’t forget issues that matter

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Dec 03 03:26 AM

Who would be investigated then if “Cayetano and the rest” are exempted? Read more »

Congress' P75-B 'insertions' delayed 2019 budget: Lacson

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 27 11:28 AM

MANILA - Is the Senate partly to blame for the delay in the budget of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games? For Senator Panfilo Lacson, nothing could be further from the truth - saying it was congressmen who tried to insert P75 billion in pork barrel projects into the budget even after the bicameral report ratification. Read more »