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Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
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 Hello Garci scandal(or just Hello Garci), also known as Gloriagate,[1][2][3]was a political scandaland electoral crisis in the Philippinesinvolving 14th president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who allegedly riggedthe 2004 national electionin her favor. The official results of the election gave Arroyo and Noli de Castrothe presidency and vice ...
August 9, 2024 at 2:49 PM. By Jack Queen. (Reuters) - Three executives of voting technology company Smartmatic have been charged with funneling $1 million in bribes to a former Philippine election ...
The 2011 Armed Forces of the Philippines corruption scandal, also known as the "pabaon scandal", was a political scandal involving the alleged misuse of military funds by high-ranking members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The pabaon system referred to a practice of giving millions of pesos to chiefs of staff when they retire. [1]
(Reuters) - Philippine soldiers should keep clear of politics, the military's new chief said on Wednesday, as rumors of a possible coup swirled in the capital after the Supreme Court declared ...
The 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 US$329 million construction contract to Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for the proposed government-managed National Broadband Network (NBN). The contract with ZTE was ...
0–9. 2011 Armed Forces of the Philippines corruption scandal. 2013 Senate of the Philippines funds controversy. 2022–2023 Philippine onion crisis. 2022–2023 Philippine sugar crisis.